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Yep, out today. Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer.
It doesn't appear to be political. I might actually buy and read this book. Might be fun for a change.
S[FONT="]tep aside Holmes and Watson; back off Poirot and Hastings. A new pair of amateur sleuths are hitting town this month: [/FONT]Barack Obama [FONT="]and Joe Biden.
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Andrew Shaffer’s Hope Never Dies opens as Biden, his narrator, mopes around the house shortly after the 2016 presidential election. Obama is “on the vacation to end all vacations”, and his former vice president is scrolling through old text messages they sent each other, feeling left behind as he watches paparazzi videos of the 44th president kayaking with Justin Trudeau and base jumping with Bradley Cooper. Then, in a satisfyingly noirish scene, he hears “flint striking metal”, and sees “a slim figure in his black hand-tailored suit” in the trees:[/FONT]
“His white dress shirt was unbuttoned at the neck. He took a long drag off his cigarette and exhaled smoke with leisure. Barack Obama was never in a hurry.”
- The Guardian
It doesn't appear to be political. I might actually buy and read this book. Might be fun for a change.