Below is the complete list of Ben Coes’ Dewey Andreas books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Dewey Andreas Books
- Hijack (2026)
Hijack was first published in 2026; within the Dewey Andreas series, it is listed as book #10.
Publication Order of Dewey Andreas Short Stories/Novellas Books
About Dewey Andreas
Ben Coes’s Dewey Andreas series is a high-intensity espionage thriller sequence built around a former Army Ranger and Delta Force operative who becomes one of the United States government’s most valuable covert assets. Beginning with Power Down, the novels combine terrorism, intelligence operations, political conspiracy, military action, and geopolitical conflict with a continuing personal story shaped by Dewey’s losses, loyalties, and uneasy relationship with the institutions that repeatedly call him back into service.
Power Down introduces Dewey far from government work. After leaving the military, he has taken a job as crew chief on the Capitana offshore oil platform near Colombia. A coordinated terrorist assault destroys the platform while another attack strikes American energy infrastructure. Dewey survives and begins pursuing the people responsible, eventually uncovering a conspiracy involving Alexander Fortuna. His response establishes the character’s defining qualities: exceptional combat experience, physical endurance, independence, and an unwillingness to stand aside when civilians or people under his protection are threatened.
The series quickly expands beyond a single terrorist network. Coup d’État sends Dewey into a rapidly escalating conflict between Pakistan and India, where the possibility of nuclear war places him at the center of an extraordinary regime-change operation. The Last Refuge shifts toward Iran and a plan involving a nuclear weapon, while Eye for an Eye turns a professional conflict with Chinese intelligence into something intensely personal. These early books establish that Dewey’s missions rarely remain abstract matters of national security. Enemies target the people closest to him, and the emotional consequences continue long after an operation ends.
Hector Calibrisi becomes one of the most important recurring figures in Dewey’s world. As a senior intelligence official and later CIA director, he provides the institutional connection between Dewey and Washington while also developing into a trusted friend. Rob Tacoma, Katie Fox, and other operatives gradually create a broader circle around Dewey, giving the books continuity beyond their individual threats. Tacoma eventually becomes important enough to lead his own related novel, The Russian.
The middle installments widen the series through terrorism, domestic conspiracy, and extremist movements. First Strike links a covert American arms program to the rise of a dangerous terrorist organization and culminates in a hostage crisis involving college students. Trap the Devil turns inward toward a conspiracy embedded within the American government, while Bloody Sunday sends Dewey on a mission involving North Korea and the threat of biological warfare.
The short story Shooting Gallery provides an additional Dewey mission involving the kidnapping of the vice president’s son in Mexico. It fits within the broader series world but is supplementary rather than essential to the main novels.
After Bloody Sunday, the series pauses while Coes introduces Rob Tacoma separately, then returns to Dewey in The Island. That novel brings the threat directly onto Manhattan, where Iranian forces isolate the island during an attempt to assassinate the president and inflict catastrophic damage on the United States.
Hijack resumes Dewey’s story in 2026 and reconnects him with the Fortuna family that helped define the opening novel. Nebuchar Fortuna, brother of Alexander and son of Aswan Fortuna, emerges as a major threat while Dewey is sent to eliminate him. Their confrontation is overtaken by a hijacking aboard a passenger aircraft, forcing enemies with a shared history to confront an immediate disaster.
Publication order is the strongest way to experience the series. Individual missions generally reach their own conclusions, but Dewey’s relationships, personal losses, enemies, and standing within the intelligence community accumulate across the novels. What begins as the story of a former soldier drawn back into violence develops into a broader chronicle of an operative repeatedly asked to defend his country while paying an increasingly personal price for doing so.