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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 new.

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Speaker 2: Talks a B twenty to twelve on your Saturday morning.

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Speaker 2: Katherine Rains has our book picks for this weekend. Cawader

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Speaker 2: Catherine Morning Jack. So, I'm a fan of the The

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Speaker 2: Rest Is Espionage podcast and one of the hosts of

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Speaker 2: The Rest Is Espionage is David McCloskey, a former CIA

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Speaker 2: agent who has also just written The Seventh Floor tell

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Speaker 2: Us about it.

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Speaker 3: He has and the story begins with a Russian CIA

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Speaker 3: asset being arrested by some of Putin's men and a

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Speaker 3: CIA officer, Sam Joseph, at the same time as kidnapped

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Speaker 3: by Russian operatives, and he'd been having this conversation cleanderestine

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Speaker 3: conversation with an asset who said shared this mole secret

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Speaker 3: with him, and the Russian asset ends up committing suicide

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Speaker 3: before he can be questioned, but Sam is forced to

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Speaker 3: undergo a significant amount of torture, and then he's finally

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Speaker 3: traded back to the CIA for a Russian spy who

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Speaker 3: was being held. And then meanwhile this other character, a

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Speaker 3: woman called Adamis Proctor and she's five foot tall, she's tattooed,

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Speaker 3: she has a drinking problem, and she's very tough both

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Speaker 3: inside and outside. She's a very take no prisoner's persona,

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Speaker 3: and she's worked for the CIA for a very long

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Speaker 3: time along with a tight new group of operatives, at

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Speaker 3: one of whom Sam is and they live on the

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Speaker 3: from a seventh floor secret missions until meetings, work together,

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Speaker 3: fight together, and look out for each other. And then

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Speaker 3: she's forced to resign due to her involvement in Sam's operation,

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Speaker 3: so she makes a complete capoia change and heads Frida

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Speaker 3: to work in an alligator tourist trap as they called,

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Speaker 3: wrestling gators and entertaining the crowds. And then Sam pays

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Speaker 3: her a visit at the gate of Farm and shares

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Speaker 3: the secret of all and they decide to team up

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Speaker 3: together and hunt the mole down. And it's a very

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Speaker 3: well written spy novel. It has great tension. You're never

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Speaker 3: quite sure who the mole is until the very end

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Speaker 3: s lots of bombshells in the story. The characters are

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Speaker 3: complex and interesting and very explosive storylines, and with David

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Speaker 3: mccloskey's background, you can understand why and it keeps your

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Speaker 3: hooked wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds great. That's the Seventh Floor by David

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Speaker 2: McCloskey in Great News. He's going to be Francesca's special

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Speaker 2: guest on the Sunday session tomorrow morning, So tune into newsborks,

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Speaker 2: he'd be tomorrow to here author and former CIA agent

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Speaker 2: David McCloskey. Right next up, More or Less Maddie by

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Speaker 2: Lisa Genova.

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Speaker 3: So, Maddie's story is one of high's and lows. And

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Speaker 3: she's a college kid just trying to figure life out,

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Speaker 3: and she wants a happy life to follow her passions,

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Speaker 3: and her life has taken a turn, making her hard

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Speaker 3: to pursue these passions of writing and filmmaking. And she

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Speaker 3: comes from this very well off country club kinetic family,

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Speaker 3: and she's youngest of three and her older sister, Emily,

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Speaker 3: is engaged to be married. And Maddie has this very

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Speaker 3: strange relationship with her mother, who babies her and doesn't

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Speaker 3: quite know how to control her disorder, which is by

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Speaker 3: polar And so you see the realities of Maddie's bi

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Speaker 3: polar condition and you can feel her confusion, vulnerabilities, the

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Speaker 3: euphoria she has, the despair, and when she's longed for

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Speaker 3: the normalcy and stability and the freedom to follow her passions.

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Speaker 3: And the story delves into how her condition impacts the family.

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Speaker 3: She's grappling with shame and fear and helplessness and all

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Speaker 3: sorts of emotions, and it is completely captivating and it

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Speaker 3: has soul and empathy and very raw and emotional, and

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Speaker 3: it's one of those books that keep you thinking long

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Speaker 3: after you've turned the last page. And Lisa Genova, the author,

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Speaker 3: is a neuroscientist, so I think she delves very well

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Speaker 3: into the subject that she's talking about, and you really

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Speaker 3: feel like you're part of the story and it's just yeah,

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Speaker 3: she writes in a fabulous way that kind of engrosses

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Speaker 3: you into it.

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Speaker 2: Superb okay, And that's more or less Maddie by Lisa

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Speaker 2: Genover or Jennefer, the first book from Catherine There The

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Speaker 2: Seventh Floor by David McCloskey. He'll be with us on

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Speaker 2: the Sunday Session tomorrow morning. Both of those books, all

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