Ultimatum

The explosive thriller from the No. 1 bestseller

‘It grips like a python from the first page, squeezing the breath out of the reader’ DAILY MAIL

‘Outstanding’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Breathless action’ THE TIMES

Hidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are building a banned device . . .

They are acting on the orders of a renegade cell within Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. They want to transform their country into a nuclear power, and so seal Iran’s domination of the Middle East.

British intelligence know something is up. Someone on the inside is ready to hand over information. SIS agent Luke Carlton is there to collect, but things go bloodily wrong . . .

Licking their wounds, MI6 need access to the hardliners. When an unlikely new source emerges Luke is sent to bring them in. Going undercover into Iran is dangerous enough, but there's a killing and a kidnapping - and suddenly the British government are confronted with a shocking ultimatum.

Now on the run and off-grid, Luke must stop a cataclysmic new war in the Gulf. And the clock is ticking . . .
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Readers love Ultimatum:

***** ‘An action-packed thriller . . . very authentic’
***** ‘A real page turner . . . thrilling adventure’
***** ‘Gripping page turner that keeps you glued to the story’
Confirms Frank Gardner’s place among the pantheon of distinguished reporters who have become excellent thriller writers, including Gerald Seymour and Frederick Forsyth . . . utterly authentic . . . it grips like a python from the first page, squeezing the breath out of the reader.
DAILY MAIL

About Frank Gardner

Born in 1961, Frank Gardner has been the BBC's Security Correspondent since 2002. He holds a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In 2004, while filming in Saudi Arabia, he was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times and left for dead. He survived and returned to active news reporting within a year. He still travels extensively. Awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism, Frank published his bestselling memoir, Blood and Sand, in 2006. His first novel, the thriller Crisis, which introduced readers to SIS operative Luke Carlton, was a No.1 bestseller. The second Luke Carlton thriller, Ultimatum, was also a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, as was the third, Outbreak. Frank Gardner lives in London.
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