Former US President Bill Clinton, 73, will release a new detective novel, The President's Daughter , in 2021 , co-authored with author James Patterson, with whom he previously collaborated on The President is missing . “Working with Bill Clinton has been one of the successes of my career and I am delighted to be able to work with him again. I am pleased to announce our second novel, The President's Daughter, and we look forward to bringing it to readers, ” tweeted James Patterson on Thursday.
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The best-selling author co-signed in 2018 with former Democratic President The President is missing , whose plot revolved around a cyberterrorist attacking the White House. Sold in more than three million copies, this novel is soon to be adapted into a television series starring David Oyelowo, according to the publisher's website.
Their new work, published by Knopf and Little, Brown, is due out in June 2021, and will deal with a threat of kidnapping on the daughter of a former president, according to a publisher's summary. It is not known if Bill Clinton was inspired by his only daughter, Chelsea, herself the author of several children's books. "I never imagined writing a book with a storyteller like Jim, let alone two," said Bill Clinton, in a publisher statement quoted by American media. "I think readers will enjoy reading The President's Daughter as I have enjoyed working on it . "