The main thrust of this plot is a former president going on a rogue mission to rescue his kidnapped daughter. That always bothered me, and one of the things with both of these books, and I couldn’t have even come close to this without President Clinton’s help, is how realistic these people are, how human they are. PATTERSON: If you think about the movies and TV shows and books that you’ve read about presidents, most of them don’t ring very true and the presidents aren’t very realistic. So you have two cases of this in this book. And those people are people too, and they never get over it. PATTERSON: A lot about NATO, how NATO used to work and hopefully will work in the future.ĬLINTON: I wanted to make sure that people understand when you start killing people, whether you’ve got bullets up close or dropping bombs in the distance, there’s going to be some collateral damage.
We always want to be fluid with where the story is going.Īre there any examples of a detail about the presidency that President Clinton added or corrected that you found particularly surprising? PATTERSON: We probably went back and forth on the outline half a dozen times. You want them to come alive, and the trick of a really good thriller is to have a hell of a good plot and make it exciting. He’ll send me a draft of a couple chapters and then we go back over and over and over again, often trying to make sure that we fill these characters out. Then Jim says okay, your job is to make sure it’s authentic. So is it fair to assume you didn’t write this book in a shared Google Doc?ĬLINTON: The first thing we do is we agree on an outline. TIME: I’ve heard you both prefer writing longhand. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. climate envoy John Kerry about “a deal on climate change in the Caribbean.”) (When he joined the call, Clinton said he had just finished talking with U.S. Clinton and Patterson spoke to TIME by phone on May 20.
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