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BOOK OF THE WEEK by Linda Jennings – THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING, JAMES PATTERSON & BILL CLINTON, 9781780898407 (RANDOM HOUSE) BD6.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
As the novel opens, a threat looms: Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. There are whispers of cyber terror and espionage and a traitor in the cabinet. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing.
Nobody knows of this terrible threat other than the President and a handful of his trusted aides. Their role is simple. It is to provide informed advice that the president can then ignore in favour of his own instinctive solution. This consists of slipping the Secret Service to meet two young cyber terrorists who are having second thoughts about a virus they’ve planted that will shut down every operating system in America once it’s activated.
Who’s behind the attack that would send the US back to the Dark Ages? Russia? China? North Korea? The plot continues in a page turning - ‘what’s going to happen next? - kind of way.
Set in real time, over the course of three days, The President Is Missing has been one of the most anticipated thrillers of the year. And, it could all really happen.
Easy to read with no complicated sub-plots and numerous chapters so you can pick it up and put it down when you have to, it is a good read if you are looking for a summer thriller that will give those over-worked brain cells a well needed rest – and isn’t that what holidays are all about?
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DARKEST HOUR, ANTHONY MCCARTEN, 9781787390300 (VIKING)
BD4.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
This is the Sunday Times Number One bestseller and official tie-in edition to the award-winning motion picture starring Gary Oldman, who took home best actor at the Oscars for his sublime turn as Winston Churchill.
From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world’s greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership.
It is May 1940 and Great Britain is at war. European democracies are falling rapidly and the public are unaware of this dangerous new world. Just days after his unlikely succession to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faces this horror - and a sceptical King and a party plotting against him. He wonders how he can capture the public mood and does so, magnificently, before leading the country to victory.
It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched, gripping day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative.
In doing so, he revises the familiar view of Churchill - he made himself into the iconic figure we remember and changed the course of history, but through those turbulent and dangerous weeks he was plagued by doubt, and even explored a peace treaty with Nazi Germany.
It’s a scarier, and more human story, than has ever been told.
MY FAVOURITE
READ OF THE WEEK
THE WORLD’S WORST CHILDREN 3, DAVID WALLIAMS, 9780008304591 (HARPER COLLINS)
BD7.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
From the phenomenal number-one bestseller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children!
Illustrated in glorious and gruesome colour by artist genius, Tony Ross, these stories will appeal and delight young readers.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your bookshelf, 10 more horrendously hilarious stories about the absolute worst children ever!
From 10-year old Hank and his endless pranks on his poor, long-suffering family, to Tandy and her titanic tantrums – this brand new collection is the perfect companion to World’s Worst Children books 1 and 2 and an ideal gift for the worst children in your life!
