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Book 41 (of 52) – The President’s Daughter

The President’s Daughter – Bill Clinton and James Patterson

James Patterson and Bill Clinton return for their second collaboration, following 2018’s The President Is Missing.  In The President’s Daughter, a terrorist, whose family was killed in a US raid on his compound, takes revenge by kidnapping the daughter of the former president, Matt Keating, who approved the operation.  After his successor refuses to give in to the terrorist’s demands, Keating, a former Navy SEAL, uses his contacts to find out where his daughter may be and puts together his own team to track her down.

Patterson and Clinton deliver another entertaining tale that casts the president, or, in this case, the recently defeated ex-president, as an action hero.  It would be interesting to see how much of these plots is wish fulfillment from Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, versus how much Patterson, one of the most prolific authors of our day, brings to the table.  Either way, I hope they put together another one.

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Book 1 (of 52) – The President Is Missing

The President Is Missing – Bill Clinton and James Patterson

We kick off 2019 with the unlikely collaboration between one of the most prolific “authors” of the 21st century and the 42nd President of the United States.  The President Is Missing tells that tale of a President under threat of impeachment who must put politics aside to focus on saving the country from a devastating cyber-attack that would destroy infrastructure and kill millions.

It has been about 7 years since I read anything by James Patterson, but the novelty of this one, along with a cheap price on Kindle, made it a no-brainer.  It was a quick read and was mostly enjoyable, but there were some plot holes that, given where the story went, really should have been addressed.  The plan of the terrorists was to take out the Internet in the United States, destroying machines and electronic records along the way.  Just two things about this: 1) it would be impossible to limit this type of an attack within geographic borders and 2) such an attack would destroy the world’s economy, not just the US.  Aside from that, it was a good airplane read.