Wow. No one has read it and all this anger and hatred. I'm no Patterson fan but I wouldn't think to judge it unless I read it.
I object to fictionalizing the attempted murder of a real person.
I never liked GWB, but I thought it was completely inappropriate when someone made a movie about someone attempting to assassinate him. Lots of movies are about assassinating the POTUS, but to have fictionalized it about the (then) sitting president was completely wrong.