Blowback

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This book begins in Johannesburg, South Africa, a place I would love to visit with an enigmatic character like Benjamin Lucas, originally from San Francisco. That attitude of restraint paid off when Trump awarded Patterson a National Humanities Medal, the only one conferred on a novelist during Trump’s time in office. Having been on a slight James Patterson kick, I was eager to get my hands on this collaborative effort between the star-author and Brendan DuBois.

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The details of the story and the plot line will ultimately prove interesting, but you'll need to invest the time to get there. To implement this scheme, President Barrett enlists the help of two special agents, Noa Himel and Liam Grey, who have “intelligence, toughness, experience. DuBois may not have the marketing glamour of Bill Clinton, but at least he doesn’t gunk up Patterson’s presidential plots with boring lectures about How Government Works. The chapters of 2, 3 or 4 pages (for long ones) alternate between characters and unnecessary sub-plots so there is no real continuity until the very end. The writing is convoluted--is English the first language of the person or persons who actually wrote this book?Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Was reluctant to give this two stars as I really used to enjoy James Pattersons works, however this one was just not for me. Every new James Patterson book claims to be the author's "best thriller in years," although depending on the coauthor, his works seldom rise above average. Grey and Himel fight back, taking on a President with no moral compunction and a belief that he can do whatever he wants without repercussion.

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He and his writing partner for this one, Brendan DuBois have written quite the summer potboiler that includes a mix of Tom Clancy espionage, the television show Scandal political intrigue, and David Baldacci layered suspense. Blowback, his latest thriller, is co-written with frequent collaborator Brendan DuBois (The Summer House, The First Lady, and so on), and the cover slogan is "An American President Goes Insane. This conclusion is I must be an odd duck due to the fact that I find this novel very suspenseful and well written.King uses the phrase keeping it on the down-low in a way that suggests he probably doesn’t understand how this phrase is currently used—and has been used for quite a while.

Blowback by Brendan DuBois and James Patterson Blowback by Brendan DuBois and James Patterson

Junior, the garrulous canine star of Dog Diaries: A Middle School Story, makes the most of his “first-ever Howliday Season” in his festive and funny second outing. This sets the stage for a tense jockeying for power, via any means necessary—absolute and unchecked power. Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read a copy of this book - all thoughts are my own,. Together, their spy thriller has some great twists and proves that there’s s no end to the abilities when Patterson enlists the help of great authors.The story didn't seem to be going anywhere interesting, and I have more interesting things to read that I know will grab me right away. But you need real thrills if you're going to create a suspense novel about a corrupt president, and I couldn't find any in Blowback.

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We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). Although the book claims; A brilliant American president is also a psychopath, he forgets to add narcissist that wants to be a monarch; but that is what is displayed on these pages!That one sentence alone suggests that the novel's fictional president is probably inspired by the 45th President of the United States.