Hope Rides Again
An Obama Biden Mystery
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Hope Never Dies, Obama and Biden reprise their roles as BFFs-turned-detectives as they chase Obama's stolen cell phone through the streets of Chicago and right into a vast...
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In the sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Hope Never Dies, Obama and Biden reprise their roles as BFFs-turned-detectives as they chase Obama's stolen cell phone through the streets of Chicago and right into a vast conspiracy.Following a long but successful book tour, Joe Biden has one more stop before he can return home: Chicago. His old pal Barack Obama has invited him to meet a wealthy benefactor whose endorsement could turn the tide for Joe if he decides to run for president.
The two friends barely have time to catch up before another mystery lands in their laps: Obama s prized Blackberry is stolen. When their number-one suspect winds up full of lead on the South Side, the police are content to write it off as just another gangland shooting. But Joe and Obama smell a rat . . .
Set against the backdrop of a raucous city on St. Patrick s Day, Joe and Obama race to find the shooter, only to uncover a vast conspiracy that goes deeper than the waters of Lake Michigan which is exactly where they ll spend the rest of their retirement if they re not careful.
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1.What a bunch of malarkey.
That had been my response when I d seen Murder on the Amtrak Express on the paperback rack at the airport. Some two-bit hack had written a potboiler starring yours truly, Joe Biden. Not only that, but the money-grubbing publisher had the gall to slap my mug on the cover. There I was, grimacing behind the wheel of a silver Pontiac Firebird Trans Am a car I d never driven in my life. Now, six chapters in, my initial assessment of its literary merit was unchanged. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.
I might as well have flushed my fifteen bucks down the crapper.
My cab screeched to a halt, sending the book tumbling from my hands. The cabbie a dead ringer for Bears legend Mike Ditka laid on the horn. A half dozen pedestrians dashed in front of us, tying up four lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic on Lake Shore Drive.
Traffic had been stop-and-go since Midway. What should have been a twenty-minute drive into Chicago had already taken double that.
Is there another route?
Ditka shook his head. St. Paddy s Day weekend. Holiday s tomorrow, but the parade s today. Your friend Obama picked da wrong morning for his ecumenical forum, if you ask me.
Economics, I said. It s a global economics forum.
Ditka glared at me in the rearview mirror. I could tell he wanted to say something smart, but he was having a rough time getting the old hamster to spin the wheel. A woman in a tight pair of green hot pants raced to catch up to her friends, feather boa in tow. My driver redirected his attention accordingly.
I should have expected the zaniness. St. Patrick s Day was the second biggest day on the Irish American
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calendar, right after November twentieth (birthday of the forty-seventh vice president of the United States). Outside of Boston, there wasn t another American city that took more pride in its Irish heritage than Chicago. By noon, the sidewalks would be stained with Guinness.
We started moving again. I groped around under the front seat for the book. My fingers brushed it, but the cab braked hard and it slipped away. Thank God I hadn t eaten anything this morning. If I had, it would have been all over the backseat. There was a reason most cab seats were vinyl.
Lose something back there? Ditka asked, craning his head around as we inched forward. The hedgehog on his upper lip was dotted with spittle.
Nothing important, I said. The book belonged under the seat. I d read cereal boxes with better character development. In the parlance of Tony the Tiger, the book was not grrreat.
Wave after wave of pedestrians were now jaywalking around us, weaving between cars. Horns honked, with little effect. Traffic had come to a complete standstill.
I couldn t see the Tribune Tower, but I knew it was situated along the river. A mile away, give or take a city block. If I were still in office, I could have arranged a helicopter extraction. Good ol Marine Two would ve gotten me there faster than you could say Scott Pruitt. Those heady days, however, were long gone and besides, I d never taken advantage of my position as a public servant like that.
I glanced at my watch. Quarter till nine. The prayer
We started moving again. I groped around under the front seat for the book. My fingers brushed it, but the cab braked hard and it slipped away. Thank God I hadn t eaten anything this morning. If I had, it would have been all over the backseat. There was a reason most cab seats were vinyl.
Lose something back there? Ditka asked, craning his head around as we inched forward. The hedgehog on his upper lip was dotted with spittle.
Nothing important, I said. The book belonged under the seat. I d read cereal boxes with better character development. In the parlance of Tony the Tiger, the book was not grrreat.
Wave after wave of pedestrians were now jaywalking around us, weaving between cars. Horns honked, with little effect. Traffic had come to a complete standstill.
I couldn t see the Tribune Tower, but I knew it was situated along the river. A mile away, give or take a city block. If I were still in office, I could have arranged a helicopter extraction. Good ol Marine Two would ve gotten me there faster than you could say Scott Pruitt. Those heady days, however, were long gone and besides, I d never taken advantage of my position as a public servant like that.
I glanced at my watch. Quarter till nine. The prayer
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Autoren-Porträt von Andrew Shaffer
Andrew Shaffer is the New York Times best-selling author of Quirk s Obama/Biden Mystery series, the satirical thriller The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America, and the Goodreads Choice semifinalist Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: A Parody, among other humorous fiction and nonfiction books for HarperCollins and Penguin Random House. He lives in Kentucky with his wife, the author Tiffany Reisz.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Andrew Shaffer
- 2019, 288 Seiten, Masse: 13,3 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Quirk Books
- ISBN-10: 1683691229
- ISBN-13: 9781683691228
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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A 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards FinalistEnjoyably ludicrous. Politico
If you're pining for the previous administration and craving an escapist summer read, Andrew Shaffer has the cure for what ails you. Los Angeles Times
This spirited, cheeky tale is everything you want from the Obama Biden Mystery series. B&N Reads
Sequels are often notoriously disappointing. How lucky, then, that Hope Rides Again isn't. The Anniston Star
If you're looking for something enjoyable and slightly out there, this is definitely a book to try. Yakima Herald-Republic
Like its predecessor...[Hope Rides Again] is ridiculously insane and inventive. BookTrib
Many of the politically aware may soon have nostalgic fondness for humor like this. LEO Weekly
"The game is afoot for Joe and Barry. This is fun, escapist fiction with enough details...to stay grounded in a kind of reality." Booklist
"Once again, Shaffer convincingly portrays his unusual leads as action heroes." Publishers Weekly
Another action-packed mystery rife with close calls. Shelf Awareness for Readers
Praise for Hope Never Dies:
An Official Summer Read of Publishers Weekly and The Interrobang
A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
[Hope Never Dies is] a roughly 300-page work of political fanfiction, 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. But it s also at times a surprisingly earnest story about estranged friends who are reunited under strange circumstances. Alexandra Alter, New York Times
It s a giddy premise, a bit of Resistance wish-fulfillment for those who d like to see Biden and Obama trading one-liners and cracking skulls. New Yorker
While readers are sure to get a kick out of the codenames and inside jokes used playfully throughout, Hope Never Dies is an
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intriguing saga that doesn t sacrifice momentum for winks and nods. Entertainment Weekly
It s easy to imagine that if these fist-bumping brothers were ever to become a modern Sherlock and Watson, the world might be a better, more interesting place. USA Today, out of four
Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in Hope Never Dies. Washington Post
It s easy to imagine that if these fist-bumping brothers were ever to become a modern Sherlock and Watson, the world might be a better, more interesting place. USA Today, out of four
Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in Hope Never Dies. Washington Post
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