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The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Well we didn't like this one did we?

"The President is Missing. The world is in shock.

But the reason he’s missing is much worse than anyone can imagine.

With details only a President could know, and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver."

Not many of us had read a James Patterson book before and I can see why. As a group we are clearly not fans of the American thriller genre. A few of us gave up along the way, one wished she had and no one really seemed taken by the dream team that was ex President Clinton and numero uno crime thriller writer Patterson.

I'm not a fan of this style of book in any event but I find what makes them work is the pace - there needs to be a deadline fast approaching. A good bad guy and a loveable rogue hero. Whilst there was a pretty big deadline, in the form of the Dark Ages, we kept taking time out to be force fed minute detail about the inner workings of the White House and the President's close knit team. The plot really stagnated during these parts and the whole book suffered as a result.

We also couldn't get away with the President being such a hero and thought the last chapter slightly vomit inducing. There were loads of brilliant one liners from the group -"I feared a migraine from all my eye rolling." "It was worse than Fifty Shades of Grey" but unfortunately this was the only good thing that came out of the meeting with reference to the book.

We were able to imagine it being a movie - think Harrison Ford 30 years ago - and did discuss our increasing dependence on technology and just how much an attack of that kind would effect modern day life but it wasn't a one we will be recommending and both are authors we will not be returning to.

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