1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,773 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,453 --> 00:00:14,933 Speaker 2: That'd be Not only is our book reviewer Katherine Rain's 4 00:00:14,933 --> 00:00:16,853 Speaker 2: a big fan of reading, she's a big fan of motorsports. 5 00:00:16,893 --> 00:00:18,653 Speaker 2: So Catherine and You'll be looking forward to that interview. 6 00:00:18,733 --> 00:00:20,693 Speaker 2: The host cares with Liam Lawson this Tuesday. 7 00:00:21,613 --> 00:00:24,573 Speaker 1: I certainly am, and my daughter and I are actually 8 00:00:24,613 --> 00:00:26,293 Speaker 1: in Melbourne next weekend for the Grond. 9 00:00:28,853 --> 00:00:30,973 Speaker 2: I just love this. I just like you know, there 10 00:00:31,013 --> 00:00:32,813 Speaker 2: will be people who've listened to you on Saturday Mornings 11 00:00:32,853 --> 00:00:36,413 Speaker 2: and said, oh, Catherine, you know she's obviously a prolific reader. 12 00:00:36,773 --> 00:00:39,093 Speaker 2: There's no way on earth she'd have any interest in motorsport, 13 00:00:39,093 --> 00:00:39,613 Speaker 2: but there you go. 14 00:00:39,893 --> 00:00:41,773 Speaker 1: It's Oh you can thank my dad for that. 15 00:00:42,093 --> 00:00:44,293 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. Melbourne will be incredible. Have you been 16 00:00:44,293 --> 00:00:45,213 Speaker 2: to that Grand Prix before? 17 00:00:45,813 --> 00:00:45,893 Speaker 1: No? 18 00:00:46,013 --> 00:00:48,853 Speaker 2: I haven't. Oh my gosh, yeah, no, I'd love to go. 19 00:00:49,013 --> 00:00:50,813 Speaker 2: It'll I mean the atmosphere in this so you will 20 00:00:50,853 --> 00:00:55,053 Speaker 2: be just unbelievable in it. Yeah, and we'll get a 21 00:00:55,093 --> 00:00:57,293 Speaker 2: good steer on where the where the Red Bull cars 22 00:00:57,293 --> 00:00:59,213 Speaker 2: are actually in positioned this year or the Racing Bull 23 00:00:59,253 --> 00:01:01,173 Speaker 2: cars are positioned this year, which is always nice. 24 00:01:01,933 --> 00:01:03,973 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll go Liam Lawson looking forward to seeing her. 25 00:01:04,053 --> 00:01:06,413 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So Tuesday morning he's going to be speaking 26 00:01:06,453 --> 00:01:09,173 Speaker 2: with Mike asking, which would be superb. Now to this 27 00:01:09,213 --> 00:01:11,933 Speaker 2: weekend's book picks. Let's start off with the last from 28 00:01:12,013 --> 00:01:14,493 Speaker 2: JP Porulmarty tell us about the Gambler. 29 00:01:15,533 --> 00:01:18,493 Speaker 1: So this features private investigator Vince Reid, and he's a 30 00:01:18,533 --> 00:01:21,093 Speaker 1: PI for hire and he's kind of that classic detective. 31 00:01:21,573 --> 00:01:24,133 Speaker 1: He's always after answers, even if he's sort of putting 32 00:01:24,173 --> 00:01:27,333 Speaker 1: himself in the middle of what's going on. He questions 33 00:01:27,373 --> 00:01:29,933 Speaker 1: everybody and you know everything, even though you know, even 34 00:01:29,973 --> 00:01:32,533 Speaker 1: when it's people he knows. And he's catching up with 35 00:01:32,573 --> 00:01:34,213 Speaker 1: an old friend of hers, a guy called Nash, and 36 00:01:34,293 --> 00:01:37,493 Speaker 1: Nash offers him a job after this young woman, a 37 00:01:37,493 --> 00:01:39,733 Speaker 1: girl called Katie, has been shot dead at a political 38 00:01:39,813 --> 00:01:42,693 Speaker 1: rally and Jason, who was a friend of Who's shot 39 00:01:42,773 --> 00:01:45,933 Speaker 1: the attacker who killed her in this heroic act, but 40 00:01:46,013 --> 00:01:49,813 Speaker 1: then he disappears, and Kate's parents are really desperate to 41 00:01:49,853 --> 00:01:51,813 Speaker 1: find out why their daughter was targeted or was it 42 00:01:51,853 --> 00:01:53,893 Speaker 1: an accident. Was she just in the wrong place at 43 00:01:53,933 --> 00:01:56,533 Speaker 1: the wrong time. But of course, the only way that 44 00:01:57,373 --> 00:01:59,253 Speaker 1: reader is going to get answers is if he tracks 45 00:01:59,293 --> 00:02:02,493 Speaker 1: down Jason, who has disappeared, and the shoot is also 46 00:02:02,813 --> 00:02:05,333 Speaker 1: kind of this really interesting woman, a woman called Barb, 47 00:02:05,733 --> 00:02:08,573 Speaker 1: and she has no obvious connection to Katie, and she 48 00:02:08,693 --> 00:02:11,333 Speaker 1: was very respected in the community. And so Read of 49 00:02:11,333 --> 00:02:14,573 Speaker 1: course realizes that he's stepping into something, you know, much 50 00:02:14,613 --> 00:02:17,013 Speaker 1: more dangerous than he thought it was, and he digs 51 00:02:17,053 --> 00:02:20,493 Speaker 1: deeper and there's all of these agendas and influences and 52 00:02:20,573 --> 00:02:23,653 Speaker 1: kind of pushing shadow influences, pushing them in different directions, 53 00:02:23,693 --> 00:02:25,933 Speaker 1: and you know there's a real personal cost to him 54 00:02:25,973 --> 00:02:29,213 Speaker 1: as well. And a story you hear it through several 55 00:02:29,213 --> 00:02:31,773 Speaker 1: different points of view, which adds to that mystery and 56 00:02:31,813 --> 00:02:34,493 Speaker 1: that air of it, and about Jason and Bub's widower 57 00:02:34,493 --> 00:02:37,813 Speaker 1: and the Marshals who are Katie's parents just not sharing 58 00:02:37,853 --> 00:02:39,693 Speaker 1: everything that they know. And so he gets this really 59 00:02:39,773 --> 00:02:42,653 Speaker 1: engrossing read with these storylines and point of views and 60 00:02:43,093 --> 00:02:47,173 Speaker 1: time jumps around and great characters and some good intrigue 61 00:02:47,213 --> 00:02:47,773 Speaker 1: along the way. 62 00:02:48,333 --> 00:02:51,413 Speaker 2: Very good. That sounds awesome. Okay, So it's by JP Paulmartia. 63 00:02:51,493 --> 00:02:54,493 Speaker 2: The book is The Gambler that now you've also read 64 00:02:54,573 --> 00:02:58,533 Speaker 2: Spies and Other Gods by John Wolfe, So this is. 65 00:02:58,533 --> 00:03:02,213 Speaker 1: A really good espionage story. It's Sir William Reynold. He's 66 00:03:02,613 --> 00:03:05,173 Speaker 1: six months away from retirement, but he's making a lot 67 00:03:05,173 --> 00:03:08,133 Speaker 1: of mistakes, his memory not quite what it was, and 68 00:03:08,173 --> 00:03:11,093 Speaker 1: he doesn't really seem to be following the situations very 69 00:03:11,133 --> 00:03:15,093 Speaker 1: well and potentially in the early stages of dementia. And 70 00:03:15,453 --> 00:03:19,253 Speaker 1: the book opens with the British Parliament's Intelligent and Security 71 00:03:19,293 --> 00:03:22,933 Speaker 1: Committee having received this complaint about a particular case that 72 00:03:23,093 --> 00:03:25,533 Speaker 1: is run by Sir William's department. What happens to be 73 00:03:26,093 --> 00:03:28,973 Speaker 1: six and it's highly classified and there's this hunt for 74 00:03:29,013 --> 00:03:33,253 Speaker 1: an Iranian assassin who's been killing Iranian dissidents in Europe, 75 00:03:33,773 --> 00:03:37,173 Speaker 1: and much to his annoyance, a parliamentary researcher has been 76 00:03:37,213 --> 00:03:40,733 Speaker 1: sent in to review the file and Afra McQueen is 77 00:03:40,813 --> 00:03:44,693 Speaker 1: that investigator, and she's smart, she doesn't back down, and 78 00:03:44,733 --> 00:03:47,493 Speaker 1: when she's sent into review, she's on the lookout for 79 00:03:47,533 --> 00:03:50,333 Speaker 1: any wrongdoing by the department as well. And this sensitive 80 00:03:50,373 --> 00:03:54,213 Speaker 1: case and it's not concluded. And also as the story 81 00:03:54,253 --> 00:03:57,173 Speaker 1: moves through, you yet unforeseen things and the story turns 82 00:03:57,173 --> 00:04:00,973 Speaker 1: in different directions and events move from London to Birmingham 83 00:04:01,013 --> 00:04:03,813 Speaker 1: to Paris, and as Afro and Sir William end up 84 00:04:03,813 --> 00:04:05,653 Speaker 1: in the same cities at the same time, and there's 85 00:04:05,693 --> 00:04:08,093 Speaker 1: lots of chaos, and it's a serial killer and you 86 00:04:08,333 --> 00:04:12,053 Speaker 1: enter this world of spies and secrets and lies and 87 00:04:12,133 --> 00:04:15,533 Speaker 1: undercover operations and it's really well done. It's written by 88 00:04:15,573 --> 00:04:18,333 Speaker 1: a former spy, and it's got a really unique style 89 00:04:18,413 --> 00:04:18,773 Speaker 1: to it. 90 00:04:18,893 --> 00:04:21,733 Speaker 2: That is definitely definitely a bit of me, thank you. 91 00:04:22,093 --> 00:04:26,493 Speaker 2: So that's Spies and Other Gods by John Wolfe. Catherine's 92 00:04:26,493 --> 00:04:29,293 Speaker 2: first book is The Gambler by JP Pormarty, and we'll 93 00:04:29,293 --> 00:04:32,013 Speaker 2: make sure both of those books and details about them 94 00:04:32,053 --> 00:04:34,333 Speaker 2: are up on the news Talks he'd be website. Catherine 95 00:04:34,333 --> 00:04:36,773 Speaker 2: will be speaking to you next weekend, but travel safely. 96 00:04:36,853 --> 00:04:41,013 Speaker 2: Can't wait to hear about your IF one experience. For 97 00:04:41,133 --> 00:04:44,173 Speaker 2: more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. 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