State of Terror

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State of Terror
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press
Publication date
October 12, 2021
Pages320 [1]
ISBN 9781982173678

State of Terror is a political-mystery novel written by former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Canadian mystery novelist Louise Penny. A spin-off of Penny's Inspector Gamache series, the titular character appearing in a minor role, the book was released October 12, 2021, jointly published by Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press. [2]

Contents

Premise

A novice U.S. Secretary of State joins the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the Secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most. [3]

Background and release

The book project was announced on February 23, 2021, with the two authors' usual publishers distributing the work on October 21, 2021. [4] The book debuted at number 1 on the October 31 New York Times bestseller lists for combined print and e-book fiction as well as hardcover fiction. [5] [6] It also appeared on Publishers Weekly's October 25 bestseller lists for Top 100 Overall and Hardcover Frontlist Fiction. [7] [8]

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References

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