Review: The President Is Missing

The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Like a Dan Brown book, on steroids, with a plot that makes less sense. There’s a lot of action, and with short chapters, this really goes quickly. Except when it gets to trying to explain the technology behind the threat-to-the-world, it bogs down and gets confusingly written very quickly in an attempt to oversimplify for a mass readership. Technology description is like quicksand here, sounding fake and falsely simple. I was anticipating reading of interesting or believable location or process descriptions about the president and his world, but this was generic D.C thriller. You can’t sense Clinton’s hand on the book here until the tacked-on winner’s monologue at the end of the book – spouting policy initiatives that a president with a high favorable rating could attempt to accomplish. I was quite underwhelmed by the story, but kudos for using Dennis Quaid to read the president’s parts of the audiobook – good casting for a president who’s also an action hero.

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