Hope Never Dies!

Wow.  Just, wow.

Apparently, this is only the first in a series of bromance crime-busting novels featuring the former POTUS and VPOTUS.

Set some months after the 2016 election, the book starts by playing into public perceptions of its main players.

“Amtrak Joe” spent decades traveling via train from Delaware to D.C. when he was in Congress, so when his favorite railroad conductor dies under shady circumstances, Biden takes it upon himself to find out the truth. The situation comes at a complicated point for Joe, who’s wrestling with mortality, how to still best serve the USA, and why Barack can’t be bothered to call.

With an entrance straight out of a James Bond film, Barack shows up to give Joe some secret lowdown on the conductor’s mysterious death — ruled a suicide by authorities — that makes the ex-VP wonder if foul play might have been involved.

The twosome, with Secret Service agent Steve in tow, head off on a twisty adventure through the mean streets of Wilmington, Delaware, encountering greasy diners, biker bars, dangerous life-insurance investigators, an ambitious and dogged cop tired of their shenanigans (she’s a Republican, naturally), and one awkward night in a cheap, rat-infested hotel room.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2018/07/09/book-review-hope-ne...

I don't know if hope never dies, but it will go to some embarrassingly desperate lengths to stay alive.