Clinton on being president and his new thriller

What happens when the president’s husband is tried for murder? That is the enigma in the heart of former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, and the last collaboration of Master James Patterson, The First Gentleman. It is a novel that only those two could conjure, after the great success of their previous books, The President of 2018 is missing (three million copies sold) and the president’s daughter (2021). Patterson is as great as they come in the world of thriller (with more than 230 million books sold), but like Clinton, a genre fan for a long time, he tells the BBC: “It was just an adventure in my old age” when they first collaborated. And it is clear while talking to them in person how fun they are still having fun.

His new exciting novel focuses on US President Madeline Wright and her husband, Cole Wright, a former professional football star. He still has the scars of his career and is looking for a purpose in the White House, while fighting to clear his name in a trial for the murder of an animator more than 20 years ago. It is a classic drama of the police of the police media, since journalists, detectives and political agents work to discover the truth behind that killed the cheerleader and exoneration to the first gentleman or destroy him and his wife’s political agenda. And, of course, the role of First Gentleman is one that President Clinton could have found in 2017 if his wife, Hillary Clinton, had the 2016 elections against the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

It is clear that Bill Clinton’s presidency is still with him while writing. “There were moments at the White House, and not only when the Republicans tried to accuse me, but we were going through really controversial difficult things, where I had the feeling that I was, in the mind of the I, everything there to Thanyline Thanyline Thanline Therine”, Thanytine Thanyline Thanline Thanyline. “

However, instead of focusing the narrative on the first couple, the book has a couple of journalists in their nucleus. Independent journalist and investigation lawyer Brea Cooke and his partner, Garrett Wilson, are digging in the disappearance of Suzanne Bonanno, a cheerleader that the first gentleman was seeing when he played for the football team of the New England patriots. It seems that Wright could have killed her, since Cook and Wilson unravel what really happened and where her body could be. Inspired by an iconic Pair Like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Patterson Sees It As Natural That Journalists Wouled Be at The Novel’s Center, “Journalists, Subthys That’s to go a after the truth … that’s truth … that’s truth … that’s to do the truth … that’s truth … that’s to do the truth … “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “

Clinton, owner of his own fights with journalists with a conspiracy mentality over the years, agrees that only in an era of feverish partisanship to honorable journalists will succeed: “Follow that Thill Thell is able to face it, I am standing. This is what I think is the truth.” “And when the Hollywood are debuted (it has been sold and written and is written by the peak of the peak of the Cengas). The central character: the journalist excavating the truth.

But the first gentleman is not just a drama of the court. It is also likely that the first thriller in history has as a central part of the plot as a great treatment on the debt and spending of the United States. Without spoiling the end, let’s say that President Wright establishes how to resolve the law spending and balance the budget. This book will be released at the same time as Donald Trump and the Republican party are presenting their own plans. Could President Wright’s proposal work? Patterson jokes: “We have a big and beautiful bill in our book.”

Some information in assumption is part of Howhey see his books connecting, says Clinton: “I think people do not care to learn something useful while entertaining for a good story.” In his first book was Cyber ​​Security, they are now budget negotiations.

And in its third exit, what has been learned the pair of writings of each other? For Patterson, it is research and authenticity, and after finishing his recent memories, he is more concentrated in “paying much more attention to prayers … I think I am better than ever, among Keepes.”

But even for this experienced couple, the first drafts of this book were difficult. Patterson admitted that: “At the beginning, it was a disaster, sincerely, that we had never had. We did not have the president, and they were not good characters. The journalists were not good characters. We, the son of knowing what the story was, but the characters were.” And then Clinton called him one night to say: “I have a real problem. I don’t care about these people.” They added depth and scenes to get the characters.

But as they are hot collaborators, they are also united by a certain perspective of life. Patterson describes it: “One of the things we have in common, I think we consider that the world is not black and white. It is always complicated. It is subtle. There are shadows, and I think that is one of the reasons why we can work together.”

And in the end, what this novel drives its crooked outcome is a sense of duty. Will the president do the right thing for her husband and for the country? The echoes are clear for Clinton: “One thing that I know something, when the other side declares war in the White House, you still have to appear and do the job.”

In a tumultuous moment, this former president’s thriller could sacrifice an essential advice for world leaders.

Lucas Wittmann is the executive director of the Center for Poetry and Literature of Unterberg in the 92nd Street and in New York. He was previously editor in Time and the Daily Beast.

Bill Clinton’s first gentleman and James Patterson is published by Century and is already out.