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The First Gentleman

by James Patterson
Bill Clinton
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Instant New York Times Bestseller!
"Bill Clinton reveals key White House details in murderous new political thriller... It's a twisty thriller with plenty of inside jobs, political sabotage and many, many deaths." –USA Today
America has a powerful new president... And her husband's on trial for murder.
Clinton and Patterson are back. And they're better than ever.
The President of the United States is up for reelection.
Her husband is on trial for murder.
Is the First Gentleman a killer?
A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
The First Gentleman has all the twists and turns, and the authenticity, one expects from the #1 bestselling authors of The President Is Missing and The President's Daughter.

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  • Release date

    June 2, 2025

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781668648247
      • File size: 317507 KB
      • Duration: 11:01:23

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2025

      Following The President's Daughter, Patterson and Clinton team up again. No plot details yet other than it's a political and legal thriller set in Washington, DC, and New Hampshire. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2025 Library Journal

      Copyright 2025 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Kirkus

      The former president teams up again with the industrial-strength tale-spinner to deliver an action-packed mystery. Cole Wright is in big trouble. Thanks to the dogged diggings of formerBoston Globe reporter Garrett Wilson and his partner, sometime lawyer Brea Cooke, the former New England Patriots tight end is on trial for murdering his cheerleader girlfriend 17 years earlier. Thing is, Cole is now married to Madeline Parson Wright, the president of the United States. Of them, Brea spits, "They're not a couple--they're a damn criminal enterprise." Garrett and Brea are shopping a book in which they claim to have hard evidence that Cole Wright killed Suzanne Bonanno, but as they probe deeper into the story, things become murky: Mafiosi, a contract killer, FBI agents, overworked cops, a law professor with deep insight into Cole's enemies, and sleek political operatives all wait their turn to complicate the tale. For all the tangled threads, Clinton and Patterson turn in a taut yarn that's satisfyingly stuffed with red herrings, a neatly engineered conspiracy, and more than a few dead bodies. One is tempted, of course, to read between the lines: The first gentleman is, after all, married to the first woman president, and there's a vast right-wing effort to stymie her efforts to forge a "Grand Bargain" that, among other things, is going to "increase the legal immigration quota by a million people per year for a decade," raise the corporate tax rate to an ironclad 15%, and "bring back Al Gore's Reinventing Government initiative from the 1990s." Suffice it to say that the primary audience for the book is not the MAGA crowd. Carefully constructed, entertaining escapism with a political edge, and just the thing for beach or airplane reading.

      COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. (Online Review)

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The latest political thriller by Bill Clinton and James Patterson comes alive through the dynamic performances of a skilled team of narrators. The plot revolves around First Gentleman Cole Wright, who is on trial for the unsolved murder of a New England Patriots cheerleader during his days as an NFL star. Spanning the years between the crime and the trial, the story follows journalists Brea Cooke and Garrett Wilson, who are both convinced of Wright's guilt. Narrators Aja Naomi King, Saskia Maarleveld, Will Collyer, and James Fouhey deliver strong, distinctive performances, working seamlessly together. King's portrayal of Brea--intelligent, inquisitive, and emotionally grounded--stands out and gives the audiobook its compelling heart. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

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