Shaffer shared with EW his five essential ingredients for turning Obama and Biden into literary sleuths.

Read on below, and purchase your copy ofHope Never Dieshere.

Killer Monikers

Obama and Biden already have amazing Secret Service code names (Renegade and Celtic).

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[And] contrary to popular belief and the books cover Biden has never owned a Firebird Trans Am.

His prized possession is a 1967 Corvette Stingray convertible.

InHope Never Dies, he mostly tools around in a neon-green 2017 Dodge Challenger T/A a midlife-crisis purchasedu jour.

For the book, however, it was necessary to get them out of their element.

Bidens hometown, Wilmington, Delaware, ended up working perfectly.

Theyre forced to use skills they didnt know they had.