# The ultimate

**Author(s):** James Lund
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-ultimate/verdict.json
**Genres:** political-thriller
**Pages:** 253
**Publisher:** J. Calder
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 1976 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-10:** 0714535958
**ASIN:** B0DVBL912R
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**Amazon binding:** (Author)
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-ultimate

## Description

In *The Ultimate* (1976), written under the pen name James Lund, Stonehouse described an IRA mortar attack on a cabinet meeting at Number Ten. The similarities between his story and what actually happened in February 1991 when John Major’s cabinet was nearly blown up by a mortar fired from a vehicle in Whitehall are so uncanny that one can’t help wondering if someone in the IRA had read *The Ultimate* and taken the idea from there.
- Owen Bennett-Jones. (2022, April 21). [The Thief and the Trousers](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n08/owen-bennett-jones/the-thief-and-the-trousers). *London Review of Books*, *44*(8).

## SageChimp reader verdict

The ultimate has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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