The President's Daughter

by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, Bill Clinton, James Patterson

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

This fast-action adventure is a certified nail-biter from the very first page, with details only a former president could write and action only Patterson could dream up. Just imagine the president as a superhero — all the fun without the cape!

The #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster thriller from former President Bill Clinton and the world's favorite storyteller, James Patterson.

"The dream team." —Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

All Presidents have nightmares. This one is about to come true.

Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL and former President of the United States, has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack.

A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie, turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths—as a leader, a warrior, and a father.

Every detail is accurate because one of the authors is former President Bill Clinton. The drama and action never stop because the other author is James Patterson.

The authors' first collaboration, The President Is Missing, was the #1 bestselling novel of 2018.

"Ambitious and wildly readable." —New York Times Book Review

"A fabulously entertaining thriller" —Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538703151
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	07/19/2022
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992, and he served until 2001. After leaving the White House, he established the Clinton Foundation, which helps improve global health, increase opportunity for girls and women, reduce childhood obesity and preventable diseases, create economic opportunity and growth, and address the effects of climate change. He is the author of a number of nonfiction works, including My Life, which was a #1 international bestseller. With James Patterson, he is co-author of the #1 international bestselling novel The President Is Missing.

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The President Is Missing:


"This book's a big one."—New York Times

"Towers above most political thrillers."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The plotting is immaculate . . . the writing is taut."—Sunday Times (London)

"Ambitious and wildly readable."
—New York Times Book Review

“Patterson’s storytelling skills combined with Clinton’s deep knowledge of the government make for a page-turning synergy.”—TIME

From the Publisher

This novel offers tantalizing clues into the unconscious of Clinton…[a] highly entertaining book.

New York Times

This fast-action adventure is a certified nail-biter from the very first page, with details only a former president could write and action only Patterson could dream up. Just imagine the president as a superhero—all the fun without the cape!”

Barnes&Noble.com

Propulsive, exhilarating, and unnervingly believable. You won’t just read The President’s Daughter, you’ll devour it.

New York Times and internationally bestselling aut Karin Slaughter

The President’s Daughter is a smart, taut, utterly fantastic roller coaster that had me holding on for dear life: a combination of every parent’s worst nightmare—a daughter abducted by a terrorist with a scimitar—and the inside world of Washington, DC (a place where, arguably, the knives are pretty damn sharp, too).

Chris Bohjalian

James Patterson brought his A-game to this one, and Bill Clinton adds the verisimilitude one would expect from his experiences in the White House as a former president and commander-in-chief. Buy it; read it; enjoy it.

New York Journal of Books

The President's Daughter is an absolute rocket.  Rich with authenticity only a president could deliver, this story of a father's desperate search for his daughter will have readers burning through pages. Clinton and Patterson are simply the best in the thriller business.

#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Elvis Robert Crais

Clinton and Patterson’s standalone sequel to their 2018 thriller, The President Is Missing, puts their respective expertise to good use in a twisting plot.

TIME

Brace yourself for a thriller with inside secrets and riveting excitement that only the partnership of Patterson and Clinton could produce. From the president’s opening phone call to the politically tense ending, it’s a page turner with resonance for our times.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Walter Isaacson

Patterson’s storytelling skills combined with Clinton’s deep knowledge of the government make for a page-turning synergy.”

Time

A diverse and experienced cast come together to maximize the drama laced throughout this political thriller…Listeners will sink into this lengthy volume, which is more than 100 chapters long. These are delivered in short three to six-minute bursts.”

AudioFile

The President’s Daughter is a spellbinding thrill ride that grabs the reader tight on page one and doesn’t let go till the very last page. With lightning-paced prose and a plot that seems terrifyingly plausible, this is one novel you won’t be able to put down.

Mark Greaney

2021-05-05
A bare-chested hero of a one-time president takes on a slew of very bad jihadis, and the bullets fly.

In office, Clinton lobbed a few cruise missiles at Osama bin Laden and company, to little apparent effect. Now, teamed up with literary industrialist Patterson, his vengeance is more comprehensive. Matt Keating helms the Oval Office. A former Navy SEAL, he has a special bone to pick with Asim Al-Asheed, a sadistic one-time doctor who once crucified a captive SEAL, leaving him to hang for an hour “before the captors grew bored and slit his throat.” Not nice. Holed up in the Libyan mountains, Asim has an eager enabler in a Chinese operative named Jiang Lijun. SEALs close in, bullets are exchanged, a bomb detonates, and Asim’s family members become collateral damage. What’s a bad guy to do? Kidnap Keating’s teenage daughter, of course, but only after Keating is out of office, “a one-term president known to history as the first to lose my job against an insurgent vice president,” Pamela Barnes, who'd never liked him and defeated him in the primaries. As president, Barnes proves less interested in Mel's safety than in politics, so it’s up to Keating to work the phones with Mossad, Saudi intelligence, and the Massachusetts State Police and assemble a crew to find Asim and “separate his brain stem from his spine.” It helps that Melanie, the daughter, knows her way around tactical weapons of various kinds. She’s a tough, resourceful kid, which only serves to tick Asim off even as Jiang woos him with geopolitical calculations and fat bribes. As for Keating, well, he’s the kind of dude given to lines like, “Except for Mel, there are no innocents up there. Armed or unarmed, running away or running toward us, kill ’em all.” Guess how it all ends? There’s scarcely a moment here that can’t be seen from afar: The bad guys sneer and stab, the good guys come riding in to save the day, the sitting president fumes at having been left out of the fun, and the authors throw in genre tropes like so many grenades.

Written by the numbers, but undemanding entertainment.

Kirkus Reviews