Le président a disparu

French language

Published May 2, 2019

ISBN:
978-2-253-25842-1
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3 stars (18 reviews)

The President Is Missing is a political thriller novel by former U.S. President Bill Clinton and novelist James Patterson published in June 2018. It is Clinton's first novel. Clinton and Patterson also teamed up to write a standalone novel with all new characters, The President's Daughter, released in June 2021.

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Enjoyable if you like this genre but not exceptional

3 stars

The promise of this book is a well-crafted thriller with a compelling mystery, with the pedigree of probably the best-selling author of the genre (James Patterson), injected with insights and details about politics and the US government from an actual former president (Bill Clinton). And it more or less delivers on that. It's just a pretty standard example of the genre. The story is complex but internally consistent, so that as you read you feel like you can unravel the mystery along with the fictional President Duncan (the main character), and it keeps the action going all the way to the end. I enjoyed this book and I think it's a good read if you like these kinds of stories, but it's not going on my list of favorites.

I guess my main "complaint", if one can call it that, is that the plot is extremely compressed and pretty intense …

Review of 'The President Is Missing: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

i'll give two stars to the missing president: one for it's bearable length (i couldn't read this narcissistic propaganda any more) and another one for the good laugh i had reading about how a writer and a former us president see the internet and hacking... i think it was closer to stone age animistic religions than to the actual state of it.

Review of 'The President Is Missing: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

SPOILER ALERTS

I'm a sucker for anything set in DC, and yet...
- Apparently I've read too many non-fiction books about the coming meltdown of our cyber systems, because nothing in here was jaw-dropping.
- I accurately guessed the traitor early enough that I was banging my head against a wall through many of the interactions.
- It's still not clear why he had to go to such lengths to ditch security - especially since it turns out he actually hadn't.
- Don't introduce a blood disease if it's not going to serve the plot in some way - feels like you forgot to use one of the threads you'd pulled out to knit with.
- This feels like a thinly veiled parable for our current crazy times. I agree with the message, but the speech in the epilogue is not unlike Ayn Rand pushing Objectivism in its transparency.

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