Obama even offers up his new car, the 'Little Beast' for transportation. So Biden decides to investigate Donnelly's death himself, and Obama jumps on board to help.

He doesn't believe Donnelly was a bad guy or a drug addict or a drug pusher, and he doesn't want Donnelly remembered like that by his loved ones. Moreover, the police believe Donnelly's death was probably a drug-related accident or a suicide - in which case Donnelly's family won't get his life insurance.īiden doesn't accept any of this. Obama delivers the news personally because Donnelly had a map showing Biden's address, and the Secret Service fears Biden may be the target of a terrorist attack.īiden reaches out to cop friend, and learns that Donnelly was suspected of using drugs, and had a baggie full of heroin when he died. When Biden hears scuffling sounds in his backyard, it turns out to be Obama and a Secret Service Agent named Steve - who've slipped in to deliver some bad news.Īn Amtrak conductor named Finn Donnelly, whom Biden has known for decades, was hit by a train and killed. It seems Obama has cut loose his 'dead weight loser vice-president' and wants nothing more to do with him. Meanwhile, Biden's 'best friend', former President Barack Obama, has been hanging out with celebrities all over the world - parasailing, windsurfing kayaking and BASE jumping in Hong Kong with Bradley Cooper.Īs Biden is throwing darts at a picture of Bradley Cooper on his office wall, he's fuming about Obama not calling, texting, emailing.or even sending a postcard. Since leaving office he's been idling around his Wilmington, Delaware home, feeling bored. Agent: Brandy Bowles, United Talent Agency.Former Vice President Joe Biden is in low spirits. Fans of Carl Hiaasen’s comic crime novels will have fun. Unwilling to believe that family man Finn was a junkie, Joe sets out to investigate what becomes a murder case, eventually aided by the hyper-cerebral Barack. Joe is further unsettled when a friend on the force, rumored to have been the inspiration for Dirty Harry, reveals that a bag of heroin was found on the body. The presence of a map of the Biden home in Finn’s work desk led the Wilmington PD to suspect that he may have been stalking Joe, so they reached out to the Secret Service. One night, Barack and a Secret Service agent show up to share some sad news-the death of Finn Donnelly, an Amtrak conductor Joe was friends with, who was struck by an Acela Express that morning. Fuming at his Delaware lake house, Joe hasn’t heard in months from his BFF, Barack, who has been busy hanging out with celebrities such as actor Bradley Cooper. The careers of Barack Obama and Joe Biden take an unusual turn after they leave the White House in this entertaining, offbeat whodunit from Shaffer ( Fifty Shames of Earl Grey).

Hope never dies by andrew shaffer