Clinton and Penny team up to write novel 'State of Terror'

[TexasTowelie]

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NEW YORK (AP) — As U.S. forces left Afghanistan this summer and the Taliban seized control, Hillary Rodham Clinton responded not just as a former secretary of state but in a capacity she never imagined for herself — as a novelist seeing her first work of fiction anticipate current events.

“State of Terror,” completed months ago and coming out this week, is a thriller co-written by Clinton and her friend Louise Penny, the bestselling crime novelist. The main character, Ellen Adams, is a new secretary of state with a backstory familiar to Clinton watchers — the surprise choice for an incoming administration led by her onetime political rival, as Barack Obama had been when he brought in Clinton after the 2008 election.

Secretary Adams will soon be caught up in what Clinton calls one of her nightmare scenarios while in Washington — an international terrorist plot involving nuclear weapons. The trouble in part originates in Afghanistan, where the previous administration of Trump-like President Eric Dunn has made a deal (as Trump did) that Adams sees as effectively giving the country back to the Taliban and raising the risk of terrorist activity.

“We did do the outline a year or so before the (2020) election. We didn’t know who was going to win. We didn’t know what was going to happen,” Clinton explained during a recent joint interview with Penny at the Simon & Schuster offices in midtown Manhattan. “Whoever was going to win — Trump , or I hoped, Biden — would be facing a fait accompli.”

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[TexasTowelie]

1. Both authors will be appearing on The View this Monday. nt

[bdjhawk]

2. Looks like they are on Seth Meyers

Late Monday night, too.

[TexasTowelie]

3. That's good. I'm certain that Rhiannon12866 will post the clips when they are available. nt

[NJCher]

4. Go to cbs Sunday morning web site

Fantastic interview. You can see those two had a wonderful time doing this book together. Seriously, one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen. It was on this morning.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Thanks.

I'll add it to my playlist.

[JoanofArgh]

6. I love Louise Penny! Thanks for posting.