AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People,
Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny
comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider
expertise--State of Terror.
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has
just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a
political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state.
There is no love lost between the president of the United States and
Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the
part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his
harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as
head of her multinational media conglomerate.
As the new president addresses Congress for the first time, with
Secretary Adams in attendance, Anahita Dahir, a young foreign service
officer (FSO) on the Pakistan desk at the State Department, receives a
baffling text from an anonymous source.
Too late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning.
What begins as a series of apparent terrorist attacks is revealed to be
the beginning of an international chess game involving the volatile and
Byzantine politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the race to
develop nuclear weapons in the region; the Russian mob; a burgeoning
rogue terrorist organization; and an American government set back on its
heels in the international arena.
As the horrifying scale of the threat becomes clear, Secretary Adams and
her team realize it has been carefully planned to take advantage of four
years of an American government out of touch with international affairs,
out of practice with diplomacy, and out of power in the places where it
counts the most.
To defeat such an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy, it will
take the skills of a unique team: a passionate young FSO; a dedicated
journalist; and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary
of state.
State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling international
thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of
state, and Louise Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York Times
bestselling novelist.
