Ultimatum

On a wintry November morning, both the Prime Minister in Downing Street and the US Ambassador in Grosvenor Square receive an appalling ultimatum. A nuclear device, concealed somewhere in London, will be detonated within 72 hours unless the British and US governments accede unequivocally to the demand for an independent Palestine. With chilling plausibility, Antony Trew describes how a group of ultra-militant terrorists - disavowed by Yasir Arafat and the PLO - hijack a nuclear warhead, smuggle it into London and trigger off a macabre treasure hunt, which has the lives of thousands at stake.