Ben Coes will be at the Book Fair on Tuesday, May 26th from 7-8:30PM for the launch of his new book: Independence Day.
Coes is the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of: Power Down, Coup D’état, The Last Refuge, and Eye For An Eye. Independence Day, His highly-anticipated 5th thriller featuring Dewey Andreas, hits bookstores May 26, 2015.
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 is a former speechwriter for the George H .W. Bush White House, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston. 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. Ben’s books are also published in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and India. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.