Book description
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 United States
governments accede unequivocally to teh demand for an independent Palestine.
With chilling plausibility, Antony Trew describes how a group of
ultra-millitant terrorists - disavowed by Yasir Arafat and the PLO -
hijack a nuclear warhead, smuggle it into Londo, issue the ultimatum,
and so trigger off a macabre treasure hunt which has the lives of
hundreds of thousands of Londoners at Stake.
There is a grim
reality in the account of Cabinet discussions in Downing Street, of
hot-line consultations between heads of state, of desperat efforts by
security services and secret agents to trace the warhead - all against
a background of suspense and mounting tension as information trickles
in and the minutes tick away towards the dramatic climax.
Antony Trew commanded an escort destroyer on Russian convoys, and
wrote with total authenticity of what Winston Churchill once called the
'worst journey in the world'. He served with the South African Navy and
the Royal Navy in the South Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Western
Approaches. He was awarded the DSC. Antony Trew died in 1996
