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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rain's, our book reviewer, is here with her two

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Speaker 2: great reads for the weekend. Hey Catherine, Morning Jack. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's begin with a new book by Lucy Clark called

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Speaker 2: The Surf House.

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Speaker 3: So this joins a genre of books that I hadn't

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Speaker 3: really heard of called destination thrillers. And it's filled with

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Speaker 3: danger and mystery and secrets and lots of blackmail. And

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Speaker 3: it's set initially in Marrakesh in Morocco. And Bee's fed

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Speaker 3: up with his modeling assignment that she's on. She's sick

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Speaker 3: of being told how to stand, what to do, and

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Speaker 3: so she decides to walk off the set, not really

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Speaker 3: knowing where she's going, and ends up straying from the

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Speaker 3: hustle and bustle of the market and gets mugged in

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Speaker 3: this alleyway and this woman, Marnie, steps in, and they

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Speaker 3: managed to escape, and money offers this place to stay

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Speaker 3: while she kind of gets herself back on her feet,

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Speaker 3: and it's called The Surf House, and she ends up

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Speaker 3: kind of running the place to basically pay for her board.

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Speaker 3: And then this new visitor arrives a guy called Seth,

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Speaker 3: and he's looking for a sister, Savannah, who's been missing

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Speaker 3: for the last year, and the last, of course location

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Speaker 3: that she was seen at was the surf house, and

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Speaker 3: so he asked me to help her find out what's

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Speaker 3: going on. And the plot really centers around Savannah and

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Speaker 3: this group of people dealing with some pretty big issues

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Speaker 3: and this van that drives off into the unknown and

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Speaker 3: the surf house by the beach, and it adds kind

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Speaker 3: of like this almost haunty, eerie feeling to the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: And then you lay it in that atmospheric, breathtaking Moroccan

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Speaker 3: landscape and you get this intriguing characters and menacing plots,

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Speaker 3: and you'd help with a great thriller, novel holds you

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Speaker 3: to turn the pages.

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Speaker 2: I was being a little bit cheap, I thought when

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Speaker 2: you said the model walks off off set in Marrakesh,

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Speaker 2: it turns into a thriller. Was like, okay, are you

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Speaker 2: but that sounds good, sounds really enjoyable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look it does. I mean with lots of these books,

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Speaker 3: you do have to suspend a little bit of reality

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Speaker 3: the point, Yes, you would need to do that with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's the whole point. That's the entire

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Speaker 2: points exactly. So that's the Surf House by Lucy Clark Love.

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Speaker 2: It tell us about the Oligarch store Joseph Finder.

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Speaker 3: So you probably also want to suspend a healthy days

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Speaker 3: of reality on this one and enter the world of

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Speaker 3: a spy thrillers. And you meet this guy, Paul Brightman,

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Speaker 3: and he's a hedge gun manager on Wall Street and

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Speaker 3: at a party he meets this woman, Tadiana, who's a

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Speaker 3: pretty successful photographer, and he falls very hard for it,

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Speaker 3: and soon they end up in a relationship together and

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Speaker 3: it becomes time for him to meet her family. And

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Speaker 3: Tadiana had always told Paul that her father was a

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Speaker 3: very successful businessman, and he soon finds himself being offered

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Speaker 3: a role in her father's business. He doesn't really want

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Speaker 3: to take the job, but the offer is amazing, and

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Speaker 3: then he makes the decision to go and work and

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Speaker 3: move to the offices where her father works. And of

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Speaker 3: course he obviously, as the title suggests, he turns out

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Speaker 3: to be a Russian oliagarch, and Paul finds himself escalated

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Speaker 3: in this world of hidden agenda's surveillance, betrayal and as

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Speaker 3: he gets closer to her family, he unwittingly sort of

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Speaker 3: steps into this game of financial power, market manipulation and

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Speaker 3: Russian intelligence, and then of course the American FBI and

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Speaker 3: CIA get involved, and he's now really in over his

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Speaker 3: head and finds himself on the run. And yeah, those

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Speaker 3: after him have some very sophisticated methods of tracking. And

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Speaker 3: it's an excellent sptral. It reminded me really of John McCarey, right, really.

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Speaker 2: Well told HERB. Yeah, okay, great, I love it. But Lacurrey,

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Speaker 2: so that could be me. I reckon. That's The Oligarch's

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Speaker 2: Daughter by Joseph Finder. Catherine's first book, The Surf House

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Speaker 2: by Lucy Clark. Make sure both of those are on

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Speaker 1: Thanks Katherine for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame.

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