Second is Hope Never Dies, which casts Barack Obama and Joe Biden as amateur sleuths 
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:
“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 novel, just out from Quirk Books, sees the duo digging in to the mystery behind the death of Biden’s favourite Amtrak conductor, and the sinister forces driving the opioid epidemic. Publisher Jason Rekulak says it will see them searching crime scenes, infiltrating a notorious biker gang and even, in Biden’s case, surviving being thrown out of a speeding train.
“It’s a tiny bit ridiculous,” Rekulak admitted. “But is it any more ridiculous than the real-life political events of the past year? Or the real-life newspaper headlines of the past week? Given a choice between the insane fantasies of Hope Never Dies or the insane realities of Washington DC in 2018, I know how I’m casting my ballot.”
Shaffer said he came up with the idea the first time he saw Biden in a pair of aviator shades. “I wondered what was going on in his head. What if he was narrating a thriller, starring himself and the president?” he said. “When the Obama/Biden bromance memes went around the internet last year, I dusted off the idea and started writing Hope Never Dies.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/12/yes-he-can-obama-debuts-as-sherlock-holmesian-detective