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 --> 00:00:14,613 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be Two cracking books with four 3 00:00:14,933 --> 00:00:18,613 Speaker 1: big name authors this morning. Yeah, both of these are collabs. 4 00:00:18,693 --> 00:00:21,213 Speaker 1: Catherine Rains is our book reviewers. He's here with us 5 00:00:21,253 --> 00:00:23,413 Speaker 1: this morning, and kas one, we'll better kick off with 6 00:00:23,453 --> 00:00:26,773 Speaker 1: the latest Jack Reacher tell us about Exit Strategy by 7 00:00:26,853 --> 00:00:28,613 Speaker 1: Lee and Andrew Child. 8 00:00:29,013 --> 00:00:32,373 Speaker 2: So this is the thirtieth in the Jack Creacher novels. 9 00:00:32,453 --> 00:00:36,173 Speaker 2: And in this Rich's in Baltimore and he's there for 10 00:00:36,173 --> 00:00:38,333 Speaker 2: a concert and it's a little bit colder, and he 11 00:00:38,373 --> 00:00:40,533 Speaker 2: decides that he needs a new coat, but of course, 12 00:00:40,573 --> 00:00:42,853 Speaker 2: being richer, he first needs coffee. So he's sitting in 13 00:00:42,893 --> 00:00:45,533 Speaker 2: the corner of a coffee shop watching the door and 14 00:00:45,573 --> 00:00:48,013 Speaker 2: there's some things going on, and you know, he noticed 15 00:00:48,013 --> 00:00:50,213 Speaker 2: a couple of people being ripped off by con artist 16 00:00:50,253 --> 00:00:52,253 Speaker 2: and he kind of a bit of a distraction and 17 00:00:52,293 --> 00:00:54,853 Speaker 2: he deals with that, and then as he's leaving, this 18 00:00:54,973 --> 00:00:58,213 Speaker 2: man that he later knows as a guy called Nathan 19 00:00:58,253 --> 00:01:01,733 Speaker 2: Gilmore brushes past him in the doorway and he Reacher 20 00:01:01,773 --> 00:01:04,133 Speaker 2: feels like he's been pickpocketed, but you know, it's pass 21 00:01:04,173 --> 00:01:07,013 Speaker 2: All everything else he needs is there, and actually later on. 22 00:01:07,013 --> 00:01:08,813 Speaker 2: When he's about to throw out this old coach, he 23 00:01:08,893 --> 00:01:11,693 Speaker 2: fhines this handwritten notion his pocket with you know, some 24 00:01:11,733 --> 00:01:14,293 Speaker 2: messages on it that is saying that life and danger 25 00:01:14,333 --> 00:01:18,653 Speaker 2: and could you know late night meeting spot. And Rachel thinks, well, 26 00:01:18,653 --> 00:01:20,173 Speaker 2: you should at least go and tell this guy that 27 00:01:20,373 --> 00:01:22,853 Speaker 2: you know, see who needs help and tell him that, 28 00:01:22,933 --> 00:01:24,413 Speaker 2: you know, why did he even know in his pocket? 29 00:01:24,413 --> 00:01:27,333 Speaker 2: And he's not the right guy. And so Richer scouts 30 00:01:27,333 --> 00:01:30,653 Speaker 2: out the meeting spot and he meets this guy, Nathan Gilmore, 31 00:01:31,253 --> 00:01:34,053 Speaker 2: and Gilmore proceeds to tell Richer this sad story. He 32 00:01:34,093 --> 00:01:36,453 Speaker 2: was in military intelligence, he had a gambling addiction, and 33 00:01:36,453 --> 00:01:39,693 Speaker 2: he's returned home and as he returned home, the stranger 34 00:01:39,733 --> 00:01:42,733 Speaker 2: offered to pay offers gambling debts and put him in 35 00:01:42,733 --> 00:01:45,813 Speaker 2: this job in a port administration in Baltimore, and an exchange, 36 00:01:45,813 --> 00:01:48,693 Speaker 2: Gilmore would feed us the information about shipments. And then 37 00:01:48,733 --> 00:01:51,573 Speaker 2: a cowork is killed in an accident, and Gilmour realizes 38 00:01:51,653 --> 00:01:54,893 Speaker 2: that actually things are going badly wrong. And this trail 39 00:01:55,053 --> 00:01:58,493 Speaker 2: leads to another guy and yeah, it's the usual Jack Reacher. 40 00:01:58,573 --> 00:02:00,973 Speaker 2: You know, wrong place, wrong time, that in his case 41 00:02:01,093 --> 00:02:03,213 Speaker 2: not always a bad thing. He's the type of hero, 42 00:02:03,333 --> 00:02:04,853 Speaker 2: you kind of one on your side and not on 43 00:02:04,893 --> 00:02:07,213 Speaker 2: the other side. And this is the This is typical 44 00:02:07,293 --> 00:02:10,493 Speaker 2: Jack Reacher, and it's a great read. Nice ye, exactly 45 00:02:10,493 --> 00:02:11,173 Speaker 2: as you would expect. 46 00:02:11,293 --> 00:02:13,533 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, but by book number thirty, 47 00:02:13,533 --> 00:02:15,933 Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to change the formula too much. 48 00:02:16,293 --> 00:02:19,093 Speaker 1: So that's an exit strategy by Lee and Andrew Child. 49 00:02:19,493 --> 00:02:22,653 Speaker 1: Next up a co lab between Harlan Coben and Reese 50 00:02:22,693 --> 00:02:26,893 Speaker 1: Witherspoon of All People Gone Before Goodbye. 51 00:02:27,173 --> 00:02:29,693 Speaker 2: So this is a really interesting co lab. And in 52 00:02:29,733 --> 00:02:32,413 Speaker 2: this story, you met this woman, Maggie mckab and she's 53 00:02:32,453 --> 00:02:36,053 Speaker 2: a very skilled Army combat surgeon and she's always lived 54 00:02:36,053 --> 00:02:37,613 Speaker 2: life sort of on the edge where she could make 55 00:02:37,693 --> 00:02:41,053 Speaker 2: most impact and what she specializes in his plastic surgery. 56 00:02:41,133 --> 00:02:44,213 Speaker 2: But she can do anything. But in this particular point 57 00:02:44,253 --> 00:02:46,693 Speaker 2: in time that we meet her, her life's fallen apart. 58 00:02:47,093 --> 00:02:51,133 Speaker 2: Her husband's been murdered overseas, her mother passes, and her 59 00:02:51,293 --> 00:02:54,133 Speaker 2: partner in the medical and friend in the medical license 60 00:02:54,133 --> 00:02:56,893 Speaker 2: has gone missing. And so with all of the things 61 00:02:56,933 --> 00:02:59,653 Speaker 2: that she's dealing with, she ends up losing her medical 62 00:02:59,693 --> 00:03:03,493 Speaker 2: license when a surgery just goes awfully wrong and then 63 00:03:03,533 --> 00:03:06,373 Speaker 2: she's recruited by almost like this white night of professor, 64 00:03:06,453 --> 00:03:09,013 Speaker 2: so who was her mentor and medical skill comes to 65 00:03:09,053 --> 00:03:13,213 Speaker 2: her with this very unusual proposal that will make most 66 00:03:13,213 --> 00:03:16,613 Speaker 2: of her problems disappear. So next thing she knows is 67 00:03:16,653 --> 00:03:19,893 Speaker 2: she finds herself aboard these luxury private jets winging her 68 00:03:19,933 --> 00:03:23,213 Speaker 2: way to a location that she's not sure of, and 69 00:03:23,453 --> 00:03:26,293 Speaker 2: she's asked to perform plastic surgery in this elite world 70 00:03:26,333 --> 00:03:28,773 Speaker 2: where money can buy anything. And then you know, the 71 00:03:28,813 --> 00:03:31,533 Speaker 2: suspicion starts to raise why she there? Will she ever 72 00:03:31,613 --> 00:03:34,533 Speaker 2: get home? And you end up in various places around 73 00:03:34,533 --> 00:03:37,333 Speaker 2: the world, in Baltimore and Russia and Dubai and England, 74 00:03:37,453 --> 00:03:40,173 Speaker 2: and there's the corruption and elitism and greed and all 75 00:03:40,213 --> 00:03:44,133 Speaker 2: of those things taking center stage. And what was really 76 00:03:44,133 --> 00:03:47,533 Speaker 2: interesting is that when you're reading the stories, you get 77 00:03:47,533 --> 00:03:51,093 Speaker 2: these two authors, how they've got a very different style. 78 00:03:51,133 --> 00:03:54,813 Speaker 2: I mean, Covin's very thriller in suspense and Witherspoon's much 79 00:03:54,853 --> 00:03:57,773 Speaker 2: more emotionally focused narrative. And there's a lot going on 80 00:03:57,853 --> 00:04:00,333 Speaker 2: this book, and it's fast paced and lots of tension, 81 00:04:00,413 --> 00:04:03,133 Speaker 2: and that the plot is really addictive, and you find 82 00:04:03,173 --> 00:04:05,573 Speaker 2: yourself really wanting to know what making McCabe's going to 83 00:04:05,653 --> 00:04:06,653 Speaker 2: do next, and what's going to. 84 00:04:06,573 --> 00:04:08,813 Speaker 1: Happen, and do you reckon it is Reese Weatherspoon who's 85 00:04:08,853 --> 00:04:13,293 Speaker 1: actually been doing that, doing the work here. It is 86 00:04:13,293 --> 00:04:16,813 Speaker 1: a great storyteller, right, but yeah. 87 00:04:16,493 --> 00:04:20,333 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, no it does because the narrative feels different 88 00:04:20,333 --> 00:04:23,613 Speaker 2: from a Carlum Coben novel, and it definitely feels like 89 00:04:23,693 --> 00:04:28,333 Speaker 2: it's much more of a female perspective. So yeah, definitely. 90 00:04:28,853 --> 00:04:29,893 Speaker 1: It's not Reese Wetherspoon. 91 00:04:29,933 --> 00:04:31,773 Speaker 2: It feels like it was a female author anyway, but 92 00:04:31,773 --> 00:04:34,093 Speaker 2: I think it genuinely was her. Feels a little bit like, 93 00:04:34,373 --> 00:04:36,573 Speaker 2: you know, how she would be and how she would speak. 94 00:04:36,373 --> 00:04:39,253 Speaker 1: Of Okay, yeah, very good. So that's gone before Goodbye 95 00:04:39,293 --> 00:04:42,973 Speaker 1: by Harlan Coben and Reese Wetherspoon. Exit Strategy is the 96 00:04:43,013 --> 00:04:45,733 Speaker 1: new Jack Reacher book by Lee Child and Andrew Child. 97 00:04:45,853 --> 00:04:47,893 Speaker 1: Both of those books will be on the News Talks. 98 00:04:47,893 --> 00:04:52,173 Speaker 1: He'd be website for more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. 99 00:04:52,413 --> 00:04:55,613 Speaker 1: Listen live to news Talks he'd be from nine am Saturday, 100 00:04:55,813 --> 00:04:57,893 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.