How’s this for a thriller: Bill Clinton is teaming up with one of the most successful authors in the world to write a novel.
Publisher Little, Brown and Company tweeted the news Monday that the former president is collaborating with writer James Patterson on a new book.
« The President Is Missing » will be published jointly by Alfred A. Knopf and Little, Brown and Company in June 2018, according to a press release from the companies.
« Working on a book about a sitting President — drawing on what I know about the job, life in the White House, and the way Washington works — has been a lot of fun, » Clinton said in a statement.
« I’m a story-teller, and President Clinton’s insight has allowed us to tell a really interesting one. It’s a rare combination, » read a quote from Patterson in the release.
The pair reportedly forged a friendship while golfing more than a decade ago.
Patterson topped a 2014 Nielsen Book Scan list of top-selling authors of the decade, ahead of « Harry Potter » author J. K. Rowling.
Clinton is the author of several nonfiction works, including his 2004 biography « My Life. »
The former president is not the only one in his household to get the fictitious treatment.
Writer Curtis Sittenfeld has reportedly secured a deal with Random House to do a fictional retelling of the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Sittenfeld is the author of the 2008 novel, American Wife, which was a fictionalized version of the life of former first lady Laura Bush.
