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| ‘Publish your emails instead’: Hillary Clinton’s plans to pen ‘political thriller’ met with groans on social media | ‘Publish your emails instead’: Hillary Clinton’s plans to pen ‘political thriller’ met with groans on social media |
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| An announcement that former presidential candidate and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is planning to write a “political thriller” with author Louise Penny has been met with groans and eyerolls on social media. | An announcement that former presidential candidate and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is planning to write a “political thriller” with author Louise Penny has been met with groans and eyerolls on social media. |
| Axios reported on Tuesday that the book, to be titled ‘State of Terror’, will be published in October by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press. | Axios reported on Tuesday that the book, to be titled ‘State of Terror’, will be published in October by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press. |
| The story will follow a “novice Secretary of State” who “joins the administration of her rival” a president who was inaugurated “after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage” – perhaps a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to the Trump administration, as it has been characterized by Democrats. | The story will follow a “novice Secretary of State” who “joins the administration of her rival” a president who was inaugurated “after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage” – perhaps a not-so-thinly-veiled reference to the Trump administration, as it has been characterized by Democrats. |
| A series of terrorist attacks will throw the “global order into disarray” and the secretary will be tasked with “assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy” designed to take advantage of a US government dangerously “out of power in the places where it counts the most,” according to the released synopsis. | A series of terrorist attacks will throw the “global order into disarray” and the secretary will be tasked with “assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy” designed to take advantage of a US government dangerously “out of power in the places where it counts the most,” according to the released synopsis. |
| While some dedicated Clinton supporters celebrated the news, along with fans of Penny's other work, others were less excited. | While some dedicated Clinton supporters celebrated the news, along with fans of Penny's other work, others were less excited. |
| “The Public is clamoring for a Hillary Clinton thriller,” reacted one Twitter user adding the eye roll emoji, while another joked, “I bet every agitator in the book will be a Russian spy.” | “The Public is clamoring for a Hillary Clinton thriller,” reacted one Twitter user adding the eye roll emoji, while another joked, “I bet every agitator in the book will be a Russian spy.” |
| “I'd rather she publish the emails she ‘lost’...” another person offered, referencing the Clinton email scandal prompted after thousands of emails stored on a private server were deleted. | “I'd rather she publish the emails she ‘lost’...” another person offered, referencing the Clinton email scandal prompted after thousands of emails stored on a private server were deleted. |
| Another joked that perhaps the book would feature a “vast right wing conspiracy” – the phrase Clinton infamously used to describe the later-proven allegations against Bill Clinton of a sexual relationship with Monica Lewisnky. | Another joked that perhaps the book would feature a “vast right wing conspiracy” – the phrase Clinton infamously used to describe the later-proven allegations against Bill Clinton of a sexual relationship with Monica Lewisnky. |
| Clinton has already published numerous books and memoirs, from a childrens’ book about her pets written during her time as first lady, to her post-election defeat memoir titled ‘What Happened’ – and more recently books for children co-authored with her daughter Chelsea. | Clinton has already published numerous books and memoirs, from a childrens’ book about her pets written during her time as first lady, to her post-election defeat memoir titled ‘What Happened’ – and more recently books for children co-authored with her daughter Chelsea. |
| Another one of Clinton's planned projects, the production of a TV series on female Kurdish fighters in Syria, was met with similar reaction last month. | Another one of Clinton's planned projects, the production of a TV series on female Kurdish fighters in Syria, was met with similar reaction last month. |
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