Ben Coes is the New York Times bestselling author of: POWER DOWN, COUP D'ÉTAT, THE LAST REFUGE, and EYE FOR AN EYE. INDEPENDENCE DAY, Coes's highly-anticipated 5th thriller featuring Dewey Andreas, hits bookstores May 26, 2015.

Ben's books are also published in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and India.

Ben worked at the White House under President Reagan and was a White House-appointed speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy at the height of the Gulf War. He served as campaign manager for Mitt Romney's successful run for Governor of Massachusetts and was a Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Ben graduated from Columbia, where he won the Bennett Cerf Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in the Boston area.