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here’s clearly money in them thar insider White House thrillers. First it was Bill Clinton palling up three years ago with literary conveyor belt James Patterson for (has anyone seen. Now there’s STATE OF TERROR, by Hillary Rodham Clinton and experienced Canadian crime novelist Louise Penny (Macmillan, $32.99). A novice secretary of state joins the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. Sounds familiar, but then: “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.”

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