Politicians, intelligence officers, foreign governments and their agents all play key roles as characters in the book, all of whom are depicted wonderfully. This time Patterson delivered an enjoyable political thriller that should keep your attention from the beginning to the end. President Barrett has cleverly dissolved all checks and balances: His vice president is lingering in a mysterious coma, the speaker of the House is swamped in a fresh scandal, and the nomination for the director of the CIA is being held up in the Senate. Every new James Patterson book claims to be the author's "best thriller in years," although depending on the coauthor, his works seldom rise above average.

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He has a kill list of enemies of the United States and sets up a back channel network to destroy them and bring the country on the verge of a world war.This is my 271st book of his that I have read- YUP, I keep track because I am in fact a SUPER FAN of James Patterson. The authors created an interesting urgency around the political dilemma, well-timed plot-twists, and connecting the multiple storylines in enjoyable ways.

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This can be an effective storytelling device, but in this case, waiting for the private investigator heroine to get to where the reader is at the beginning of the story feels interminable. Grey and Himel fight back, taking on a President with no moral compunction and a belief that he can do whatever he wants without repercussion.Although the book claims; A brilliant American president is also a psychopath, he forgets to add narcissist that wants to be a monarch; but that is what is displayed on these pages! Only six months into his term, h comes up with an off-the-books plan to use the CIA on home soil to get rid of his enemies. As CIA agents they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all threats, both foreign and domestic. S.), but this one had such an intriguing premise in its subtitle, "An American President Goes Insane", and being a political thriller junkie, I had to give it a try.

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But you need real thrills if you're going to create a suspense novel about a corrupt president, and I couldn't find any in Blowback. S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows.

The plot of a president focusing on their own greatness and willing to put the country in harm to portray himself as “great” really hit home to me in our current political climate (and I hate politics! Still, the blowback must begin, or President Barrett will keep holding power and push the US into a war with two enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy the Land of the Free, given the chance. Shuttling back and forth to reveal a constantly widening panorama, Patterson and DuBois focus on deputy CIA director Hannah Abrams’ stalled nomination as director, inoffensive finance officer Donna Otterson’s suicide when she’s arrested for passing CIA secrets to the Chinese, and the mysterious poisoning that’s sent Vice President Laura Hernandez into a coma. If at least 150 pages of unnecessary dialogue had been cut from Blowback, the novel may have been much better. I love the short chapters but it gets me every time I think I’ll just read one more and next thing you know I have been up for hours.

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The authors offer nothing new, but they throw in some historical anecdotes of interest, deliver tense action scenes, and tie up all the loose ends. For me, the best part of “Blowback” was the plotting and how the characters connected to the overall story.The situation is ideal for a paranoid leader hearing voices urging him to fulfill his messianic destiny. Eventually, the two begin to have doubts about what they’re doing, and it becomes clear that Keegan is becoming more and more delusional. Unless they can find a way to outsmart the psycho in the oval office before the blowback destroys the country. A former American president turns action hero in Clinton and Patterson’s disappointing follow-up to their bestselling The President Is Missing.