The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton & James Patterson

Author:Bill Clinton & James Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473581388
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2021-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

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When I was a kid growing up in rural Texas, hours to the west of Austin, I was fascinated by the Navy, even though there were no rivers or lakes of note near our small dusty town. But we were close to Fredericksburg, where famed World War II fleet admiral Chester Nimitz was born, and I must have gone to the museum marking his life a half dozen times.

Among the scores of books I read about the Navy in those years was one called The Terrible Hours, about the desperate attempts to rescue sailors trapped in the USS Squalus, a submarine that in 1939 sank off the coast of New Hampshire during a training accident.

A great book, a great title, and I mean no disrespect to those long-dead thirty-three rescued men, but I would gladly exchange their terrible hours for my own terrible hours during the glacial passage of time following the failed rescue of Mel.

The hours slowly pass, with meals half eaten, phone calls, visits from representatives from Homeland Security and the Secret Service, even some cryptic briefings from CIA officers. I have some comforting words with Samantha, each of us trying to buck the other up as the red numerals on the various clocks flip their way into the next day.

Maddie Perry is busy next door as well, juggling lots of phone calls and visits, an amazing number of them from psychics who claim to know where Mel is at this moment. Sometimes the “readings” are precise, with a street name and number, and other times it’s a psychic thinking that Mel is near a railroad by a body of water.

One phone call that isn’t received, however, is from Pamela Barnes, president of the United States.

At some point in the middle of the night, my body gives up and I fall into a troubled sleep on the unmade bed, Samantha cuddled up next to me.

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