Ned Stevens is a man on the cusp of losing everything he holds dear. The Crossroads Herald is on the brink of collapse. Friends drop like flies. He feels true love slipping through his fingertips. When he realizes all the wealth in the universe cannot save the love of his life, he must venture into lawlessness.

   Friends become mortal enemies. The quiet town of Crossroads explodes into a cacophony of debris. Can Ashley and Ned’s love survive the unimaginable? As danger lurks, will they reclaim any semblance of a safe haven?

Ashley Stone’s life turned upside down when she accepted a job at a small town newspaper. Harboring a deadly secret, she’s unexpectedly plunged into a vortex of international intrigue, murder, and foul happenings. To make matters worse, Ashley’s wrestling her own demons and as her life unravels, who can she turn to when all hell breaks loose?

Intrepid photographer, Ned Stevens, escaped to small town Minnesota hoping to get away from big city drama. But he leaped from the frying pan directly into the fire. Little did he realize Crossroads was the hub of a global terrorist network… and he unwittingly holds the key to unleashing unparalleled terror.

When a dark stranger rolls into town, quiet small town life turns on its ear. Friends become enemies. Safe havens turn brutal when a local is murdered in a most unimaginable way. With friends, lovers, and coworkers at risk, will Ashley and Ned be able to reclaim their haven?

A major North American hydroelectric dam is blown up and the largest off-shore oil field in this hemisphere is destroyed in a brutal, coordinated terrorist attack. But there was one factor that the terrorists didn't take into account when they struck the Capitana platform off the coast of Colombia—slaughtering much of the crew and blowing up the platform—and that was the Capitana crew chief Dewey Andreas. Dewey, former Army Ranger and Delta, survives the attack, rescuing as many of his men as possible. But the battle has just begun.
While the intelligence and law enforcement agencies scramble to untangle these events and find the people responsible, the mysterious figure of Alexander Fortuna—an agent embedded into the highest levels of American society and business—sets into play the second stage of these long-planned attacks. The only fly in the ointment is Dewey Andreas—who is using all his long-dormant skills to fight his way off the platform, then out of Colombia and back to the U.S., following the trail of terrorists and operatives sent to stop him. Power Down is a gripping, compelling debut thriller from Ben Coes, a powerful new author, an amazing talent certain to join the ranks of the genre's finest writers.

North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal—he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. absolutely must respond.

What the U.S. doesn't know is that North Korea has made a deal with Iran. In exchange for effective missiles from Iran, they will trade nuclear triggers and fissionable material. An exchange, if it goes through, that will create two new nuclear powers, both with dangerous plans.

Dewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. But he's the only available agent with the skills to carry out the CIA's plan to stop North Korea. The plan is to inject a singular designer poison into the head of the North Korean military and in exchange for the nuclear plans, provide him with the one existing dose of the antidote. But it goes awry when Dewey manages to inject a small amount of the poison into himself. Now, to survive, Dewey must get into North Korea and access the antidote and, while there, thwart the nuclear ambitions of both North Korea and Iran. And he has less than 24 hours to do so—in the latest thriller from Ben Coes.