Month: July 2012

Audio Excerpt: The Last Refuge by Ben Coes

Audio Excerpt: The Last Refuge by Ben Coes

We’ve been talking this week about Ben Coes’ newest thriller, The Last Refuge.

Today we have a special treat for those of you who are good listeners – an audio excerpt of The Last Refuge. Give it a listen and then tell your audiobook loving friends to buy a copy and support a great book!

And don’t forget that we’re giving away a free hardcover edition signed by Ben Coes next Wednesday, July 11. Details are listed in our review and on our FB page.

Book Review: The Last Refuge by Ben Coes + Giveaway

Book Review: The Last Refuge by Ben Coes + Giveaway

The Last Refuge by Ben Coes is Book 3 in the Dewey Andreas series and primarily revolves around the at-odds political landscape of three countries: Iran, Israel and The United States.

Israeli Special Forces Commander Kohl Meir (and great-grandson of Golda Meir) is kidnapped by the Iranians off the streets of New York City. Meir is not only a high-profile name for the Iranians to capture, but he also is one of Israel’s deadliest operatives who specializes in killing terrorists. The Iranians are seeking revenge for the deaths of four of their undercover operatives and believe Meir is responsible. They put on a farce of a public trial and…

Guest Post by Lou Aronica: Differential Equations & Magic Realism

Guest Post by Lou Aronica: Differential Equations & Magic Realism

Today, we are excited to bring you a guest post from Lou Aronica, one of the authors of Differential Equations, where he tells us about the inspiration for the book and more about magic realism. Aronica is a New York Times best selling author and President and Publisher of The Fiction Studio and Publisher of The Story Plant. You can learn more about him here…

Differential Equations, the novel Julian Iragorri and I just published, had numerous sources of inspiration. Julian’s family story was one, as was the fact that both of us had some mind/body experience. Another key source of inspiration were the magic realists. I knew that Julian and I could collaborate well when I learned in our first conversation that both of us considered Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude a favorite novel. Further conversation revealed a shared affection for Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado, and others. I’d wanted to write a magic realist novel for some time, and with Julian I would finally get the chance to do so.