Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson discuss their new novel, The President is Missing , in which a fictional president fights a cybersecurity attack amid intense political dysfunction. I’ve often thought that it would be a good thing to have people who do these kinds of books, these thrillers, as well as more serious books, working kind of off the books, if you will, for the government, imagining all kinds of scenarios, and then devising immediate defenses for them. ADI IGNATIUS: I did have that feeling reading the speech, as you say, near the end of the book, that it seemed to be, that was Bill Clinton talking, and Bill Clinton talking in 2018 to the political reality right now.