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The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton
5.0
A political thriller of good guy vs bad guy premise, from White House and New Hampshire to Nafusa Mountains in Libya, the former US president, Matthew Keating gets a 'personal attack' invitation, a revenge of a life for a life from a terrorist Asim Al-Asheed who has abducted his daughter, Melanie.
A well structured plot that follows Matt's life through his last term of being the US president (insert some dirty political scenes) to the day of the abduction and the aftermath of it. Realising that his daughter is still in the hands of Asim (after a 'bloody' episode of her well-being and with no help from the White House), he decided to embark on a one-man special ops mission to save his daughter.
Despite the thickness, I would consider this as an easy and light read due to its short chapters and straightforward narrative. Bit expected on the storyline but still quite enthralling and surprising to me. Love the glimpse of political rules and processes around the White House (really dislike the new president especially her husband), keeping loyalty to the one that you can trust, be aware of the 'snakes", and to use your 'info' at the right time (well done, Sam!). Love Matt's gripping characters and his buddies also all the dramatic and intense rescuing mission-- that seriously making me nervous! I love Melanie-- tough and quick thinker, and thanks to David Stahl (that chapter 131 *sighhh*) I get all emotional and sobbing after reading a thriller ://
I guess it's a great thing that I have yet to read the previous The President is Missing as I read reviews that these two having the same formula and one might find it boring and too expected. Nevertheless, a great political thriller if you are interested and I think this is also a great read if you are a new thriller reader (don't mind the thickness, nearly 600 pages for this edition)-- tense and exciting, not complicated and draggy, not much of political jargons and quite easy to delve into. Honestly I enjoyed reading this a lot. A full 5 stars!
Thanks to Pansing Distribution for sending me a review copy of this book in return for my honest review!
A well structured plot that follows Matt's life through his last term of being the US president (insert some dirty political scenes) to the day of the abduction and the aftermath of it. Realising that his daughter is still in the hands of Asim (after a 'bloody' episode of her well-being and with no help from the White House), he decided to embark on a one-man special ops mission to save his daughter.
Despite the thickness, I would consider this as an easy and light read due to its short chapters and straightforward narrative. Bit expected on the storyline but still quite enthralling and surprising to me. Love the glimpse of political rules and processes around the White House (really dislike the new president especially her husband), keeping loyalty to the one that you can trust, be aware of the 'snakes", and to use your 'info' at the right time (well done, Sam!). Love Matt's gripping characters and his buddies also all the dramatic and intense rescuing mission-- that seriously making me nervous! I love Melanie-- tough and quick thinker, and thanks to David Stahl (that chapter 131 *sighhh*) I get all emotional and sobbing after reading a thriller ://
I guess it's a great thing that I have yet to read the previous The President is Missing as I read reviews that these two having the same formula and one might find it boring and too expected. Nevertheless, a great political thriller if you are interested and I think this is also a great read if you are a new thriller reader (don't mind the thickness, nearly 600 pages for this edition)-- tense and exciting, not complicated and draggy, not much of political jargons and quite easy to delve into. Honestly I enjoyed reading this a lot. A full 5 stars!
Thanks to Pansing Distribution for sending me a review copy of this book in return for my honest review!