Bill Clinton Teams Up With James Patterson To Write A Political Crime Thriller
Six months after his wife’s surprise election defeat to Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election, Bill Clinton has a new job. The former president is teaming up with author James Patterson to write a political crime thriller. Titled The President Is Missing, the novel is set to be released in June 2018, authored by Patterson with the help of Clinton.
According to the Telegraph, published by Penguin Random House, the novel is set to follow the plot of a presidential kidnapping, with the publisher promising that it will include details that “only a president can know.”
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“Working on a book about a sitting president – drawing on what I know about the job, life in the White House, and the way Washington works – has been a lot of fun,” Clinton said about writing the book with his friend James Patterson.