As U.S. forces left Afghanistan this summer and the Taliban seized control, Hillary Rodham Clinton responded not just as a former secretary of state but in a capacity she never imagined for herself – as a novelist seeing her first work of fiction anticipate current events.
“State of Terror,” completed months ago and coming out this week, is a thriller co-written by Clinton and her friend Louise Penny, the bestselling crime novelist. The main character, Ellen Adams, is a new secretary of state with a backstory familiar to Clinton watchers – the surprise choice for an incoming administration led by her one-time political rival, as Barack Obama had been when he brought in Clinton after the 2008 election.
Secretary Adams will soon be caught up in…
