Eye for an Eye (49 page)
Writing a book is truly a team effort, and I’d like to thank the big team who helped me with
Eye for an Eye
.
Aaron, Nicole, Lisa, Lucy, Frances, Arleen, Melissa, and John, my “kill team” at the Aaron Priest Agency: you guys are the best. A special thank-you to Nicole Kenealy James; you somehow find a way to be amazingly gentle and brutally tough; you’re my fiercest advocate and I’m grateful to have you on my side.
To Sally Richardson, Matthew Shear, Keith Kahla, Matthew Baldacci, Paul Hochman, Nancy Trypuc, Jeanne-Marie Hudson, Anne Marie Tallberg, George Witte, Jeff Dodes, John Murphy, Hannah Braaten, Stephanie Davis, Loren Jaggers, Phil Mazzone, Rafal Gibek, Malati Chavali, and everyone else at St. Martin’s Press: thanks for your patience, guidance, and confidence. A special thanks to Keith, my editor: your patience is surpassed only by the diplomatic skills with which you deliver your “suggested” changes.
Thanks to: everyone at Macmillan Audio, including Mary-Beth Roche, Robert Allen, Brant Janeway, Samantha Edelson, and Esther Bochner; Chris George, my man in Hollywood; Caspian at Abner Stein and Trisha at Pan Macmillan in London; Lizzie, Lora, Alyssa, and Andrea at Scratch.
As with every book, I needed the help of experts to nail some of the subject matter in
Eye
. Thanks to: Michael Murray, James Lacey, Rod Gregg, and Charlie Speight.
The kitchen cabinet: Shortsleeve, Miguel, Michelle G., Rorke, Alex, Sam A., Tad, Ed Stackler, Ranger, Mabel, Ray L.
Last but not least, thanks to my family. This time, I decided to let my four kids each write their own acknowledgment. I cannot in good conscience vouch for the accuracy of the following, but it did come from their mouths:
To Esmé, you are a great sharer to your friends and a great example to your mean brothers and a great hockey player on your team. Oscar, you’re an amazing hockey player who is also skilled with guns and knives. Teddy, you are a great cook, a football genius, and you like a nice pair of slacks. Charlie, you’re a nice guy who should be allowed to do whatever you want.
To Shannon, thanks for your tremendous support, excellent advice, true friendship, and undying love (I wrote that—and it is 100 percent accurate).
ALSO BY BEN COES
Power Down
Coup d’État
The Last Refuge
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BEN COES is the author of the bestselling thrillers featuring Dewey Andreas, which include the critically acclaimed
Power Down, Coup d’Etat,
and
The Last Refuge
. He is currently a partner in a private equity company in Boston. He lives with his family in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Visit the author’s Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/bencoes
or his Web site at
www.bencoes.com
.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
EYE FOR AN EYE.
Copyright © 2013 by Ben Coes. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by Ervin Serrano
Cover photograph by George Diebold/Getty Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Coes, Ben.
Eye for an eye: a Dewey Andreas novel / Ben Coes.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-250-00716-2 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-02609-5 (e-book)
1. Special forces (Military science)—Fiction. 2. Terrorism—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.O2996E93 2013
813'.6—dc23
2013009103
eISBN 9781250026095
First Edition: July 2013