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"Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The\nGuardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.\n\nFrom the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise&mdash;State of Terror.\n\nAfter a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone&rsquo;s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of\nstate.\n\nThere is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it&rsquo;s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences\none of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate.\n\nAs 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,\nreceives a baffling text from an anonymous source.\n\nToo late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning.\n\nWhat 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;\nthe 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.\n\nAs 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\ninternational affairs, out of practice with diplomacy, and out of power in the places where it counts the most.\n\nTo 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\nnew secretary of state.\n\nState 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\nYork Times bestselling novelist."
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