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Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers' Favorite
The year is 2032, Joe Benton is ready to take office as the forty-eight President of the United States. President Gartner calls Benton to the White House to brief him on the situations facing the new administration. Global Warming is no longer a theory but a reality. The rising seas have made it necessary to relocate US citizens away from the coastal areas. The US government continues negotiating Kyoto 4 with China. President Joe Benton is faced with serious circumstances. Each of which could destroy the US. When China launches a nuclear strike, Benton must decide on whether or how to retaliate. Will the Chinese blink? Will Benton blink? Will his decisions take the US to the brink of war or beyond?
Ultimatum by Matthew Glass is a brilliant thriller. The action takes place around the President of the United States. The reader sits with the President in the Oval Office, the West Wing of the White House, on Air Force One, and in a bunker. As a reader I wanted to second guess Benton’s decisions as did those around him. Benton changed from a candidate willing to say what was necessary to get elected to a leader willing to do what he felt was best for his country.
Ultimatum will leave the reader disturbed. Do we as citizens of the US have a sense of superiority? Do we feel invulnerable? Glass may have written the most important book of the era. Will the world take notice of the “prophecy” he presents or will we continue to ignore it.
