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.
‘Penguin Random House’ Acquires Hiroshima Memoir
With our television screens full of bombing and destruction, Ebury Press, part of Penguin Random House, has acquired an eyewitness account of the world’s deadliest bombing raid. Ebury Press will posthumously publish Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto. The publisher says: “At approximately 8:15 on the morning of 6th August 1945, Tanimoto, a […]
