Guess Again

 

This book is made for the movies.  It will make a great action-packed film. The President is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton is fun to read. It is definitely action-packed. I can picture this in a movie. It is so fast-moving that I can't tell you the literary quality of it because I was turning the pages too fast to see what was next and to judge.

The story begins with President Duncan in front of Congress answering their questions like we see people do for Congressional hearings. The representatives want the president to explain why he's telephoning jihadists. President Duncan won't answer. Then come to find out, what we've been reading wasn't real. It was a practice before the president goes before the representatives.

That's a taste for what you think is coming, it doesn't. What happened to the president? Is he hiding so he doesn't have to testify? Was he kidnapped? Did his blood disease render him incapacitated and he's in the hospital? Where did he go?

There's an assassin. Is she after the president? Will the assassin get caught?

There's a traitor. It's one of six people. Whom do you think it is?

I'm not spoiling this fun, fast-paced novel. Enjoy.

Cyber Threat to the Country

A few days ago I spent on a visit to the hospital.  It took the whole entire day.  While there, I read a 513-page book, The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.  Yes, that's Bill Clinton the former president and James Patterson, the award-winning mystery writer.

The white house descriptions and the interaction between the people who surround the president, obviously are Clinton's contribution.  The suspense I give credit to Patterson.  It is a page-turner.  I didn't want to do anything else but find out what was going on in the book.

There's a real cyber threat to the country.  Everything will shut down.  Think about it, e.i., hospitals, financial institutions, etc.  The country couldn't function.  We would be open to military attack.  The story is the race to figure out how to stop it.  To complicate matters, the president is sick and his health is fading fast.

I've already said, I couldn't put the book down.  It's a page-turner.