A maverick Commander-In-Chief, facing down impeachment charges and a baying media, puts his Presidency on the line to save humanity from impending disaster. Reading the President Is Missing, a high-octane collaboration between ex-Oval Office custodian Bill Clinton and bestseller conveyor belt James Patterson, it’s hard not to leap to the conclusion that the authors may have based their fictional Leader of the Free World on one comparatively recent holder of the office in particular.
This is Clinton’s fiction debut, although he isn’t the first President to dabble in the form (Jimmy Carter published his historical romp the Hornet’s Nest in 2003). And Clinton already has one blockbuster to his...