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Bill Clinton, James Patterson: The President Is Missing: A Novel (2018) 3 stars

The President Is Missing is a political thriller novel by former U.S. President Bill Clinton …

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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.

...apparently I'm not.