20 Great Thrillers, June 2012

This sequel to the brilliant POWER DOWN finds India and Pakistan at the brink and beyond of nuclear war, with the United States and China sure to become involved on opposing sides. Former Army Ranger Dewey Andreas is tasked with stopping the conflagration and has an entire forty-eight hours to do it. It’s a tale so exciting that you’ll fall off the edge of your seat reading it when you’re not hiding under the bed. Coes, whose POWER DOWN seems amazingly prescient in retrospect, makes the entire scenario seem not only plausible but also probable.