Patterson is a NeverTrumper. I find this interesting.
Publish the novel, thus allowing both to have credibility (or what passes for it these days) for later, when Patterson publishes his great "All these people are guilty but Clinton is innocent and I know it because I know my co-author Clinton really well."
It has the same clumsy, unlikely, phony, crappy half-assed-alibi smell that all Clinton operations have.
But with the Clintons, they are majorly emboldened: They know nobody is going to get at them.
And after Whitewater, Cattle Futures, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Monica Lewinski, Kathleen Willey, Russian uranium, Mena cocaine, Russiagate, etc., etc., etc., who in his right mind would think anyone would ever, ever get the Clintons in the first place?
What is weird is why would Clinton waste his time with Patterson trying to lavage or otherwise cover up his involvement with these child traffickers?
The smoking gun is seen today, on news shows, that when interviewed about his new investigative book on the child traffickers, he DOES NOT admit his co-authoring a book with Clinton. NOR does any lap-dog journalist take him to task for it or even ask him to admit it!