ULTIMATUM

When Democrat Joe Benton becomes the 48th president of the United States, four years of Republican apathy are succeeded by an agenda of dynamic social reform. But within weeks, Benton is forced to set aside his radical housekeeping campaign to address the threat of environmental devastation posed by accelerated global warming. China—with its appalling record of pollution and refusal to do anything about it—becomes America’s enemy, and as the two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing battle of wits becomes a race against time. As the world edges toward a tragedy that can end only in nuclear war, Benton struggles to make sense and good judgment prevail.

Taking over where Primary Colors and The West Wing left off, Matthew Glass’s visionary and deeply unsettling thriller steers us into the dark heart of political intrigue as President Benton’s first year in office becomes the most crucial twelve months of his entire life.