November 2032. Joe Benton has just been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after winning, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. For the United States, a leading carbon emitter for decades, the prospects are devastating: thirty million coastal-dwelling citizens will need to be relocated; Miami will be washed into the ocean and southern California will waste away to desert; the relocation process will cost trillions of dollars. With the world frighteningly close to catastrophe, Benton opts to abandon multilateral negotiations in the Kyoto 4 summit and resumes secret bilateral negotiations with the Chinese-the world's worst polluter. As the two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing battle of wits becomes a race against time. Ultimatum is a visionary and deeply unsettling thriller that explores the most pressing issue of the twenty-first century-t

Ultimatum

Literature & Fiction

Glass, Matthew

Contemporary

Atlantic Monthly Press

It's 2018. Tom Knowles, a moderate Nevada Repubilcan, is the American president hoping to lead his country into a new era of stability and growth. He sees his change to put his stamp on world affairs when thirty-two American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by a terrorist organization. Knowles opts for military intervention even though China considers Uganda its African sphere of influence, and warn him to keep out. Six weeks later, stock prices on Wall Street are falling. Amid rumors of insolvency, a major investment bank leads the rout. When the bank refuses a government bailout, and it becomes known that the Chinese State Investment Corporation is its major shareholder, the market slide turns into a panic. Are U.S. stock prices being manipulated by the Chinese government in retaliation for the president's intervention in Uganda? As the president's team takes drastic action to protect to the U.S. economy, the Chinese government strikes back to protect its interests, and the confrontation shifts rapidly from Wall Street to the coast of East Africa, where the U.S. and Chinese navies stand eye to eye. Trigger Point is an electrifying follow-up to Ultimatum that paints a terrifying portrait of where we might be headed.

Trigger Point

United States

November 2032. Joe Benton has just been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after winning, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated. With the world frighteningly close to catastrophe, Benton must save the United States from environmental devastation. He resumes secret bilateral negotiations with the Chinese--the world's worst polluter--and as the two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing battle of wits becomes a race against time. With tension escalating on almost every page and building to an astonishing climax, Matthew Glass's visionary and deeply unsettling thriller steers us into the dark heart of political intrigue and a future that is all too believable.

Genre Fiction

GROVE PRESS

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

July 5, 2018, Masini, Uganda: 218 people are massacred when the Lord’s Resistance Army attacks an undefended hospital. Among them are thirty-two American volunteers. September 12, UN Security Council: the United States announces its plan to eradicate the Lord’s Resistance Army once and for all. But it will mean military intervention in China’s African sphere of influence. The message from the Chinese is to keep out. October 17, Wall Street: after a trio of high-flying traders hatch a secret plan to make a killing by undermining the share price of a certain New Yorkbased bank, stock prices tumble as a wave of uncertainty sweeps the US markets. Memories of the collapse a decade earlier are still fresh, and Washington is prepared to do what it takes to prop up America’s banks. But the government’s concern is that this time the turmoil is orchestratedthat someone is deliberately undermining the US markets. Are these completely unrelated incidents, or the opening moves in a much larger confrontation between two superpowers? With hawks and hardliners on both sides keen to provoke conflict, the crisis escalates inexorably. American diplomat Marion Ellman must defuse the situation before it’s too late. Will the world’s two superpowers pull back from the brink, or is worldwide catastrophe inevitable? The author once again takes us behind the scenes in the worlds of high finance and international diplomacy in this sharply intelligent follow-up to his internationally praised debut novel, Ultimatum.

Trigger Point: A Novel

HarperCollins, Publishers

It’s 2018: thirty-two American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by a terrorist organization. Six weeks later, stock prices on Wall Street fall; are they being manipulated by the Chinese government in retaliation for U.S. intervention in Uganda? As the president takes drastic action, the confrontation shifts from Wall Street to the coast of East Africa, where the U.S. and Chinese navies stand eye to eye.

HarperWeekend

Fishbowl

Literary

Corvus

As a gifted Ivy League student, Andrei Koss hit upon an idea that would revolutionize social networking and move it on by a generation. Enlisting the help of his best friends, Ben and Kevin, he turned their dorm room into an operations base, where flashes of creative brilliance and all-night-coding sessions led to the creation of Fishbowl. He is now the 21-year-old CEO of a multi-billion-dollar empire. His creation reaches into every corner of the planet. But its immense power has many uses, and some will stop at nothing to get a piece of it. The internet is everywhere. Those who control it, control us.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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Ultimatum

Trigger Point

Ultimatum

Ultimatum

Ultimatum

Trigger Point: A Novel

Trigger Point

Ultimatum

Fishbowl

Fishbowl