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The publishers claim that Clinton has contributed information that could be provided only by a former president – or, I would add, by somebody who’s watched an episode of Homeland. Meanwhile, Clinton and Patterson weave in a side plot involving the Chinese secret agent Jiang Lijun.
As the world watches, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father. director in “The President’s Daughter,” the second swaggering political thriller produced by the unlikely writing team of James Patterson and Bill Clinton. Written in the breathless present tense, with typical Pattersonian staccato exposition expressed in short paragraph bursts (“I checked my watch. If you have no real expectations you'll most likely get a kick out of the movie, just don't expect too much. What results is a book that reads very much like an Alex Cross or Jack Reacher thriller, but in which rather than a kick-ass crime solver leading the way, we have the leader of the free world… um… leading the way.
Al-Asheed is a scary guy, but an important feature of this sort of book is a hostage who refuses to show fear.
Among his creations are some of the world's most popular series including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett and the Private novels. Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie, has been abducted, turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security.
These peasants didn’t get the message that it was time to wander back to their flea-infested hovels,” he thinks at a party in Tripoli, smiling politely at his Libyan guests.
Mary Stuart was previously seen in AS YOU ARE, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, as well as recurring roles on NCIS (CBS) and BLUE BLOODS (CBS). Other recent film credits include Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, The Belko Experiment and Divergent. The President’s Daughter is the second collaboration between former US president Bill Clinton and crime novelist James Patterson. His last effort, Conviction, starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell, earned Swank a SAG Award nomination, won Best Film at the Boston Film Festival and was awarded a Freedom of Expression honor from the National Board of Review. In Prague he breaks his promise of only 2 agents following her to a concert and she runs away with Ben to see Europe.
The cynical cliches about Washington bureaucracy laced through The President’s Daughter weren’t even fresh in the previous century when Clinton was lying to the American people about “that woman.
Over the past three years, Bill Clinton and James Patterson have developed a bankable formula: In their previous thriller, a US president went missing. The final bit you need to know is that being an former Navy SEAL means that Keating finds it impossible to sit back and watch.Working with publishers large and small he's been honored with numerous Audie Awards, the Odyssey Award and Odyssey Honors, many AudioFile Earphone awards, and multiple PW Listen Up Awards.
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