Surely, there can be no woman in literature that one so loves to hate than Lenore Simmons of Point Clear, AL, who treats her grown daughter, Sukey, like a child and her community like her empire.This is no time for plot summary except to say the book features blue jays, barnstormers, Great Danes, kind neighbors, Polish ancestors, fly-girls, psychiatrists, and WWII simmering together to make a savory stew of a read. Having 'read' the audio version of this book mostly while driving the roads of north Georgia, I needed little else to make the time pass delightfully other than a thermos of sweet tea. One of life's small pleasures has got to be listening to Fannie Flagg narrate her own novel. Part noir thriller and part bromance, Hope Never Dies is essentially the first published work of Obama/Biden fiction-and a cathartic read for anyone distressed by the current state of affairs. Together they’ll plumb the darkest corners of Delaware, traveling from cheap motels to biker bars and beyond, as they uncover the sinister forces advancing America’s opioid epidemic. To unravel the mystery, “Amtrak Joe” re-teams with the only man he’s ever fully trusted: the 44th president of the United States. Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama team up in this high-stakes thriller that combines a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes with the laugh-out-loud bromantic chemistry of Lethal Weapon’s Murtaugh and Riggs.

Agent: Brandi Bowles, United Talent Agency.' an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama-Biden team to emerge from political retirement as action heroes.'-Alexandra Alter, New York Times Once again, Shaffer convincingly portrays his unusual leads as action heroes. When Biden arrives at the train yard, however, he finds that Denton has been shot, turning the investigation into something more serious. The device is traced to a railroad yard, but even after Obama remotely deletes its contents, Biden is determined to identify the thief he suspects it’s Shaun Denton, the likable teenager who was assigned to watch the green room. When Obama’s Blackberry disappears from the green room at the building where the event is being held, Biden is eager to engage in more “Hardy Boys hijinks” to locate it. The former v-p, who hopes to be elected president, is in Chicago to attend a global economic forum Obama is hosting.

Bestseller Shaffer’s second thriller featuring Joe Biden and Barack Obama as investigators (after 2018’s Hope Never Dies) opens with Biden referring to the events of the previous book as “a bunch of malarkey,” setting the tone for the rest of this humorous page-turner.

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