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Not brilliant by any means, but a fun read and a real page-turner. I'm guessing that Clinton provided the details on the presidency and characters and Patterson drove the plot, but who knows?
3.5 stars'The President is Missing' is a novel about President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan, who's in a race against time to stop a cyberattack that would cripple the United States. It's tempting to compare fictional President Duncan with real President Clinton (who co-authored the book), and many reviewers have had fun pointing out that Duncan is an improved version of Clinton. Be that as it may, for my review I'll consider President Duncan a purely fictional character, made up by the authors.*****A...
You’d be forgiven if you thought that a book by a former President would be serious, weighty, and realistic. The President Is Missing could have been those things. It certainly explains things about how the government operates. It’s offers weirdly wonky takes on partisanship, fake news, the media, false equivalence, domestic and global politics, drone strikes, homeless vets, and racial profiling by police.The titular President is Jonathan Lincoln Duncan (see what William Jefferson Clinton did th...
I don't normally read this type of book but... What can I say. I was intrigued to see former US President Bill Clinton's input. And in the early part of this novel I enjoyed it. Was ambling along nicely to a solid three star popcorn type read. But then it descended into rhetoric overkill. And an utterly illogical outcome that I predicted from the moment it was set up purely because it made little to no sense and therefore I knew that was the *twist* Patterson (or whichever of his ghostwriters wa...
Actually good! I’m more surprised than anyone. When I first heard about this book a year ago I thought it was a joke. It reads like most popular thrillers, and I’m sure Patterson wrote 95% of it, but the added voice of an experienced president shines through. It’s not JUST a thriller, it’s a scenario of what-ifs. The commentary on how a president has to make tough decisions (they elect to avoid the phrase “hard choices”) is the most intriguing part of the book while the conventional edge-of-your...
James Patterson has entered into his most interesting collaboration yet, taking second chair to former American president Bill Clinton in a story that is highly political and action packed from the opening paragraph through to the epilogue’s lingering final sentence. President Jonathan Duncan finds himself in the middle of a congressional witch hunt. The former military hero has stories about outlasting Iraqi torturers, but when it comes to an opposition Congress, he’s forced to accept an attack...
This is basically the book equivalent of McDonalds: You know it is trash but you also kind of enjoy it and the high levels of artificial cheese leave you feeling kind of queasy. Watch me discuss this book in my July wrap up: https://youtu.be/uug2ch7Sggc
