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Bill Clinton to write White House thriller novel

The former US President may have been accused of resorting to fiction when questioned about his affair with Monica Lewinsky during his time in the Oval Office… but he has now decided to actually write a novel!

In one of the most unexpected literary collaborations to date, former US president Bill Clinton is to publish a novel with bestselling crime writer James Patterson. Titled The President Is Missing, the novel is being billed as a “unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power”.

They say you should always write about what you know best…. and Bill Clinton is certainly taking that old adage to heart by penning a novel about the US Presidency.

It was revealed last night that the book will be entitled ‘The President Is Missing’ and will be published early next year.

“Working on a book about a sitting President — drawing on what I know about the job, life in the White House, and the way Washington works — has been a lot of fun. And working with Jim has been terrific. I’ve been a fan of his for a very long time,” said Bill Clinton.

The novel, which will appear in June 2018, will draw on details that “only a president can know”, said publisher Penguin Random House. In a statement released through his publisher, Clinton, who left office in 2001, said: “Working on a book about a sitting president – drawing on what I know about the job, life in the White House, and the way Washington works – has been a lot of fun.” He described working with Patterson, who is as famous for collaborating on books as he is for individual bestsellers, as “terrific”. “I’ve been a fan of his for a very long time.”

Clinton, a keen reader of thrillers and mysteries, has known Patterson for 10 years, during which time they have become golf partners. They came up with the idea for the novel after the lawyer they both retain suggested they work together. They started working on the book in late 2016, and though details of the plot are being held back until publication, a source told the Guardian it would involve a sitting US president being kidnapped.