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A review by jacki_f
The Last Refuge by Ben Coes
4.0
This is a fast moving thriller which is big on action and low on credibility. Thankfully there's enough of the former to override most problems with the latter. It's a page turner in the Vince Flynn mould.
This is the third book to feature former SEAL and Delta officer Dewey Andreas. I had not read the others in the series and this didn't really matter except that I may have had more affinity with the characters if I knew their back stories better. All you need to know is that Andreas has previously been involved in covert ops for the US Government but is trying to withdraw from taking on more assignments. However when an Israeli Mossad friend to whom he owes an enormous debt is abducted by the Iranians, he develops a plan to bust his friend out of Iran's most secure prison and to steal a nuclear warhead at the same time.
This is the kind of book where all the women are voluptuous, Dewey's girlfriend is the 36 year old (stunning) National Security Advisor and the US President says things like "Iranians are the most dishonest people on the planet". American scientists are the smartest in the world and all US enemies are sloppy and/or dishonest. Israel is a US ally but will react to any attack on any one of their people by wanting to bomb Tehran back to the Stone Age. I found all this pretty irritating, to be honest.
So for realism, I'd rate this 2 stars. Nevertheless, I tore through it and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a mindless thriller, and if you expect nothing more you will enjoy it.
This is the third book to feature former SEAL and Delta officer Dewey Andreas. I had not read the others in the series and this didn't really matter except that I may have had more affinity with the characters if I knew their back stories better. All you need to know is that Andreas has previously been involved in covert ops for the US Government but is trying to withdraw from taking on more assignments. However when an Israeli Mossad friend to whom he owes an enormous debt is abducted by the Iranians, he develops a plan to bust his friend out of Iran's most secure prison and to steal a nuclear warhead at the same time.
This is the kind of book where all the women are voluptuous, Dewey's girlfriend is the 36 year old (stunning) National Security Advisor and the US President says things like "Iranians are the most dishonest people on the planet". American scientists are the smartest in the world and all US enemies are sloppy and/or dishonest. Israel is a US ally but will react to any attack on any one of their people by wanting to bomb Tehran back to the Stone Age. I found all this pretty irritating, to be honest.
So for realism, I'd rate this 2 stars. Nevertheless, I tore through it and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a mindless thriller, and if you expect nothing more you will enjoy it.