The president is missing

Big and fast. Clinton and Patterson are a dream combo. Two great storytellers, one inside and one outside, both at the top of the game. They've put together an undeniably gripping ride through the hidden passageways of power and politics. This book teaches as much as it entertains. The pleasure of this book is in imagining the wild tales Clinton might disclose about his own years as President, if only he could.

Clinton's insider secrets and Patterson's storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade. Engrossing from page one. Of course not. The climax is very exciting. This dark tale is, at bottom, a warning and a prophecy about the mortal threats to our democracy posed by terrorists abroad, homegrown extremism, and the technological miracles that have rendered us both powerful and defenseless at once.

The President Is Missing towers above most political thrillers. Must read. As I read, ferociously turning the pages, I kept asking myself, 'Could this really happen? He had already obtained the password from Nina's text messages and entered it himself. The president confronts his chief of staff and tells her that he has evidence that she leaked "Dark Ages", and she tipped off Suliman as well.

Duncan learns that Suliman had been sponsored by Russia and a faction in the House of Saud , both of whom wanted to weaken the superpower status of the US so they could expand their territory without interference. The president's popularity soars, and impeachment talks are dropped. Clinton and Patterson went on a meeting tour to select the right outlet for a theatrical film.

However, Showtime initially announced that they were turning the book into an ongoing drama series. In his review of the novel for The New Yorker , Anthony Lane argues that The President Is Missing "maximizes its potency and fulfills its mission" while commenting negatively on the book's prose, the absurdity of its plot, and the use of product placement.

In a negative review, Will Gompertz of the BBC gave the novel 1 out of 5 stars, calling it "predictable, dull and uninteresting". Knopf announced that the book sold , copies in all formats during its first week. By July 6, , Publishers Weekly stated that the book sold nearly , copies by the end of June and was the top selling new novel for the entire first half of Contents move to sidebar hide.

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He graduated from Yale in , and worked for a short time in D. In , Clinton entered his first political race, against Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt, losing to the Congressman by 2 percent. He lost the reelection two years later because of Cuban refugee issues, but regained the title in , and held it till he became President in Bill Clinton announced his run for President on October 3, , and with Al Gore as his Vice President, took office on January 20, at the age of