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Hillary Clinton responded as U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan this summer and the Taliban seized control, not just as former secretary of state, but as a novelist she hadn't thought of before. Her first fiction predicted the current state of affairs.
Completed a few months ago and published in mid-October, Country of Terror is a thriller co-written by Hillary and her friend and best-selling crime novelist Louise Penny. The protagonist, Ellen Adams, is a new secretary of state, a surprise choice because the new government is led by her former political enemies. This is just as Obama recruited Hillary Clinton after the 2008 election.
Secretary of State Adams would soon be embroiled in an international terrorism conspiracy involving nuclear weapons. The trouble stems in part in Afghanistan, where the Trump-style administration of former President Eric Dunn struck a deal that Adams argued effectively returned Afghanistan to the Taliban, increasing the risk of terrorism.
The novel, which is nearly 500 pages long, was influenced by Hillary Clinton's political experiences and her global outlook. When adams, the protagonist of the novel, takes office, the leadership of the United States has just "experienced a slide on the world stage." At the same time, a wave of terrorist attacks has completely disrupted the world order, and the secretary of state has to face this difficult problem.
In terms of content, the novel is clearly a strong satire of the recently departed Trump. "Who better suited to write such a book than Hillary? It should be very attractive. A Twitter user from Washington, D.C., commented. Another Twitter user said, "Will this show the good side of Hillary Clinton?" ”
In reality, Hillary Clinton was the Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 and unexpectedly lost to Trump in the final two-person showdown. From 2009 to 2013, Hillary Clinton served as U.S. secretary of state in charge of foreign affairs in the Obama administration, and her tenure was controversial, such as a lack of judgment on premeditated attacks by Islamist terrorist militants in the Benghazi attacks and, after leaving office, being accused of using personal email accounts for official business. From 1993 to 2001, during Bill Clinton's administration, Hillary Clinton first moved into the White House as the first lady of the United States.
It wasn't Hillary's first time writing a book, but it was her first time writing a novel. She has previously written non-fiction books, such as her 2003 memoir, History in Person. Written from Hillary's middle school days, the book centers on eight years of life in the White House and deals with policies during Clinton's administration, as well as her feelings with Clinton. Another 2014 memoir, Hard Choices, tells the story of the diplomatic choices she faced as secretary of state in the Obama administration. And "Why I Failed," published in 2017, describes her loss to Trump in the 2016 election.
For Penny, publishing a political thriller is a new frontier. Her best-known work is The Curse of the House of Evil, published in 2008. The book tells the suspenseful story of a murder that takes place in a small Canadian town. Another of her most well-known novels is 2009's Tales of the Dark Night. Both novels won the title of "Novel of the Year" at the Agatha Award. The Agatha Award, awarded by the National Society of Suspense Works to speculative fiction with a classical spirit of reasoning, was founded in 1988.
"When someone suggested that I write a political thriller with my friend Hillary, I couldn't wait to say yes." Petunia said in a statement, "Before we started, we talked about what happened during her tenure as secretary of state. What was her worst nightmare? 'Terror States' is the answer. ”