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Hillary Clinton, Louise Penny team up for fictional ‘State of Terror’
Tampa Bay Times ^ | 2/24/2021 | Collette Bancroft

Posted on 02/26/2021 1:09:41 PM PST by simpson96

The latest publishing news has set a tune running through my head: “Anything Bill can do, Hill can do better....”

Settle down, nobody in the Clinton family is running for office. The news, announced Tuesday by publishers Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press, is that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has collaborated with bestselling mystery author Louise Penny on a novel. The political thriller, State of Terror, will be published in October.

The book, according to the news release, is about a novice U.S. secretary of state who joins the administration of a former political rival inaugurated after “four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage.”

According to the publishers’ synopsis, “A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most.”

Clinton won’t be the first in her family to co-write a political thriller. Former President Bill Clinton teamed up with another bestselling crime fiction author, James Patterson, to write The President Is Missing. Published in 2018, it became the bestselling adult fiction book of that year; it has sold more than 3 million copies.(snip)

Penny is the award-winning Canadian author of 16 novels about the soulful and intrepid Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, most set in the picturesque little town of Three Pines in Quebec. The latest is All the Devils Are Here, published last year.

Clinton has said in interviews that, in the aftermath of the 2016 election, she found solace in reading Penny’s novels (also in chardonnay). The two have been friends for several years.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...


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1 posted on 02/26/2021 1:09:41 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

“Hillary Clinton, Louise Penny team up for fictional ‘State of Terror’”

The prologue begins with ...

“In 2016, an evil Orange Man, with the help of the Russian government, stole the American presidential election from a highly qualified female candidate....”


2 posted on 02/26/2021 1:16:55 PM PST by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: moovova

Synopsis of the book goes to show her state of insanity. It’s laughable...so you know libtards will eat it up.


3 posted on 02/26/2021 1:18:32 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Think of all the truly talented writers the publishing houses overlook in favor of publishing cheap garbage from washed up politicians.

They figure now the only way to keep the books from being remaindered at Costco for 99 cents is to add a popular mystery author!!


4 posted on 02/26/2021 1:24:45 PM PST by browniexyz
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To: simpson96

A state of terror is the result of Hilldawg in office.


5 posted on 02/26/2021 1:28:44 PM PST by Rollee
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To: browniexyz

Just think how many people used her book as toilet paper during the early days of the Covid virus when TP was a premium.


6 posted on 02/26/2021 1:28:54 PM PST by wbslws
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To: simpson96

In this novel, does the Secretary of State kill everyone who gets in her way?
Just asking for a friend who likes realistic novels.


7 posted on 02/26/2021 1:48:11 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: simpson96

Given what they have done in the 2020 election, I think they are going to be surprised with the public’s response to any terrorist attack in the next four years.


8 posted on 02/26/2021 1:50:31 PM PST by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: wbslws
Just think how many people used her book as toilet paper during the early days of the Covid virus when TP was a premium.

I don't know...the Koran was pretty rough...I doubt this literary masterpiece would be printed on decent paper.

I'll pass.

On wiping with it or reading it.

I want as little as I can to do with the nasty harridan.

9 posted on 02/26/2021 1:52:51 PM PST by OldSmaj (Living in the boondocks, bitterly clinging to my gun and my Bible. And loving it.)
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To: simpson96

Thelma and Louise team up again


10 posted on 02/26/2021 1:58:25 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: OldSmaj

I’d rather wipe with a rabid wombat.


11 posted on 02/26/2021 2:00:55 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: simpson96

I’ve been a big fan of Louise Penney... No longer. How do I get my money back for Kindle purchases?


12 posted on 02/26/2021 2:01:42 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: simpson96

What’s really strange is Louise Penny’s books are FANTASTIC! When I found out a while ago she’s a Hillary lover, it put me in a bad mood and I considered not reading her latest book, but couldn’t stop myself and it was as good as ever, no political stuff.

I highly recommend Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series, if you haven’t read them, start at the first one, they are FANTASTIC.

But I’ll skip the Hillary Clinton one for sure.


13 posted on 02/26/2021 2:22:04 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: simpson96
Publisher's working draft of book cover:


14 posted on 02/26/2021 2:26:26 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: moovova

...with the help of stupid hicks who didn’t know how to pull the right lever!


15 posted on 02/26/2021 2:37:04 PM PST by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: Slyfox

That’s hysterical! Poor kid!


16 posted on 02/26/2021 2:37:41 PM PST by gr8eman (Elder Non-Binary Sibling is Watching You!)
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To: simpson96

I can’t wait to read the part about influence peddling, using private servers, and then destroying all the hard drives, cell phones, and deleting emails.


17 posted on 02/26/2021 5:00:49 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: simpson96

“State of Terror”....what her employees experienced working for her in the West Wing.


18 posted on 02/26/2021 6:41:10 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Bite Me.....The Commander-in-Thief, Commander-in-Cheat, Illegitimate president!)
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To: simpson96

Neither one of them wrote anything, their participation was for money only, not creative output.


19 posted on 02/26/2021 6:42:51 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: Auntie Mame

She’s Hillary’s lover, oh my, shades of Patricia Cornwall here!


20 posted on 02/26/2021 6:45:29 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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