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		</div><p>Former US president Bill Clinton and best-selling novelist James Patterson are collaborating on a thriller.</p>
<p>The President Is Missing is due to come out in June 2018, according to a joint statement from rival publishers Alfred A Knopf and Little, Brown and Co.</p>
<p>The publishers called the book &#8220;a unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power&#8221;. They said: <i>&#8220;It will be informed by details that only a president can know.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Knopf has long been Mr Clinton&#8217;s publisher, and Mr Patterson has been with Little, Brown for decades.</p>
<p>The President Is Missing is the first work of fiction by Mr Clinton, whose best-known book is the million-selling My Life.</p>
<p>For Mr Patterson, it is the chance to team up with a friend who knows as well as anyone about life in the White House.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Working with president Clinton has been the highlight of my career, and having access to his first-hand experience has uniquely informed the writing of this novel,&#8221;</i> Mr Patterson said in a statement.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I&#8217;m a storyteller, and president Clinton&#8217;s insight has allowed us to tell a really interesting one. It&#8217;s a rare combination &#8211; readers will be drawn to the suspense, of course, but they&#8217;ll also be given an inside look into what it&#8217;s like to be president.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Working on a book about a sitting president &#8211; drawing on what I know about the job, life in the White House and the way Washington works &#8211; has been a lot of fun,&#8221;</i> Mr Clinton said in a statement. <i>&#8220;And working with Jim has been terrific. I&#8217;ve been a fan of his for a very long time.&#8221;</i></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Unexpected news of the day: Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-writing a thriller, ";The President Is Missing."; <a href="https://t.co/tz35ueeoye">pic.twitter.com/tz35ueeoye</a></p>
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<p>A political release from the 1990s had a similar arrangement: Random House and Simon &#038; Schuster jointly published the non-fiction All&#8217;s Fair by husband-and-wife campaign consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin.</p>
<p>Knopf and Little, Brown declined to offer any more details about the book, including whether it refers to President Donald Trump, who last autumn defeated Mr Clinton&#8217;s wife, Hillary.</p>
<p>Financial terms for the novel, which the authors began working on in 2016, were not disclosed.</p>
<p>Mr Clinton and Mr Patterson share the same literary representative, Washington lawyer Robert Barnett, who negotiated the deal.</p>
<p>Presidents and ex-presidents have been turning out books for a long time, but novels are rare.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter, a prolific and wide-ranging author since leaving the White House in 1981, released the historical novel The Hornet&#8217;s Nest in 2003.</p>
<p>A presidential daughter, Margaret Truman, had a successful career with her Capital Crime mystery series.</p>
<p>Penguin Random House &#8211; which has published both Clinton and Patterson &#8211; has UK, Commonwealth and European rights to the collaboration.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This unprecedented collaboration with its compelling mix of insider knowledge and edge-of-the-seat suspense is utterly irresistible,&#8221;</i> said Susan Sandon, divisional managing director at Penguin Random House.</p>
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