The former US president and best-selling novelist, James Patterson, are charting unknown territory with their collaboration on a thriller, The President is Missing. Slated for a June 2018 publication, the second unusual aspect of the book is the fact that it will be a joint release by rival publishers, Alfred A. Knopf and Little, Brown and Co. Their signatures are visibly present on the copies of every novel.
Billed as a “unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama”, the novel might be the first in the thriller genre written by a former president.
James Patterson, known as one of the most prolific authors in the US, is seen collaborating for the first time with a person more famous than himself.
President Bill Clinton has occupied a prominent place on the list of bestsellers in the US after having sold more than two million copies of his memoir, My Life, in 2004, which was published by Alfred A. Knopf, and then published in Arabic by the Cultural Dialog Company in Beirut, Lebanon.
Ibtisam Azem’s Novel Nominated for Booker Prize 2025
The Palestinian novelist, short story writer, and journalist Ibtisam Azem, is among the 13 writers on the 2025 International Booker Prize longlist. Her novel asks difficult and provocative questions. What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in […]
