Ryan, Chris. Ultimate Weapon.(Brief article)(Book review)

Ryan, Chris. Ultimate Weapon. Weinstein. Feb. 2009. c.368p. ISBN 978-1-60286-050-6. $23.95. F

The ultimate weapon in this gritty, violent, and action-packed novel is the secret of cold fusion, an almost mythical source of cheap energy that the oil barons would like to suppress. A young and brilliant female scientist has apparently discovered the secret and is kidnapped by Hussein's men in the days leading up to the 2003 Gulf War. When her father, a former member of Britain's elite Special Forces, the SAS, and her sometime boyfriend, …