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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks atb.

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Speaker 2: It is time to talk books and I'm joined by

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Speaker 2: Catherine Rains. Good morning, Catherine, Morning, Francesca. David Baldacci has

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Speaker 2: a new book out.

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Speaker 1: He does and this is this third in his Travis

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Speaker 1: Devine series. And Travis has a very impressive background. He

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Speaker 1: served as an arranger, he's worked on Wall Street, and

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Speaker 1: he's currently what they probably term a fixer with Homeland Security.

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Speaker 1: And he's also because he's this kind of guy trying

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Speaker 1: to evade an assassin on his trail who's only known

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Speaker 1: as the Girl on the Train. And Travis is sent

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Speaker 1: to Seattle by his boss to for what seems a

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Speaker 1: very straightforward job helping the FBI escort a young girl,

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Speaker 1: a twelve year old named Betsy odum So, meeting with

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Speaker 1: her wealthy business man Danny Glass. And Glass is accused

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Speaker 1: of racketeering drug smuggling and he awaits charges a trial

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Speaker 1: on model charges in Washington State, and he's seeking custody

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Speaker 1: of Betsy following the death of her parents in a

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Speaker 1: suppose a drug overdose. And as Travis de delves deeper,

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Speaker 1: he suspects for our player around Betsy's parents' death. There's

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Speaker 1: things that don't add up, and what's Betsy's saying about

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Speaker 1: what happened really doesn't add up. And so what starts

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Speaker 1: as a really routine mission all of a sudden escalates

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Speaker 1: into something much darker and more dangerous, and he starts

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Speaker 1: to uncover this web of secrets. And it's an action

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Speaker 1: packed story with lots of twists and turns and an

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Speaker 1: enormous dose of tension, and it's a great page turning thriller.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So if someone gave me this for Christmas and

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Speaker 2: I hadn't read the first two books, would it matter?

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Speaker 1: No, it doesn't matter at all, and pick them up anywhere.

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Speaker 2: Okay, brilliant. Now, Matt Wyman, he has co written books

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Speaker 2: with some of the world's leading figures in sport, and

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Speaker 2: he has been embedded with the Mercedes IF one team

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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, and he

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Speaker 2: has ered a new book out.

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Speaker 1: He does so he after writing many of the books

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Speaker 1: that he did, and you know the research that he's done,

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Speaker 1: he's now very focused on the Mercedes AMG Patrona's IF

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Speaker 1: one team and he spends as you said, a year

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Speaker 1: embedded with him, and he chronicles individual race weekends and

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Speaker 1: story with his time with the team's personnel, and he

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Speaker 1: packs Mercedes at a time where they had won eight

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Speaker 1: Constructors Championships and it ended for them in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and so this book covers a period when the winning's

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Speaker 1: over and Mercedes are really on the back foot, and

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Speaker 1: he talks about their culture and determination and that resilience

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Speaker 1: of the team. And the first sort of chapter includes

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Speaker 1: a lot of scene setting and background information about the

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Speaker 1: team and the support of F one, And I felt

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Speaker 1: like the book was targeted at a much wider audience

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Speaker 1: than just F one a personality. So probably all of

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Speaker 1: us that watch Drive to Survive on Netflix would be

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Speaker 1: this is the perfect kind of book. And it's told,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned before, the backdrop of those races across

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Speaker 1: that season and focusing on the individuals and their particular

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Speaker 1: roles in the team. So he talks to mechanics and

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Speaker 1: engineers and strategist and the pit crew and lojastics and

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Speaker 1: pr folks, and then he also talks with Toty Wolf,

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Speaker 1: who's the principal of the team, and he captures all

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Speaker 1: of those personalities, and what's really interesting is some of

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Speaker 1: the personal backgrounds of the people on the team and

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Speaker 1: the passions and why they're in F one. And so

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Speaker 1: with the interviews with people like the team principal Trader

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Speaker 1: Wolf and the drivers George Rushl and Lewis Hamilton, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: really interesting tales. And also included in this was Hamilton's

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Speaker 1: surprise move to decide to sign for Ferrari, and so

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Speaker 1: it's covered in lots of detail from both Hamilton and Wolf.

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Speaker 2: So that's right up to date, right up to date.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's written really well and you feel like

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Speaker 1: you have not part of the team, but you know

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Speaker 1: part of the inside knowledge of how the team works

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Speaker 1: because previously, before really Drive to Survive, these teams were

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Speaker 1: very private. So actually you find a lot of information

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Speaker 1: and a lot of things that you wouldn't necessarily get

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Speaker 1: to see or hear about, and you know how things

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Speaker 1: work and what goes on behind an F one team.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and if you're an F one aficionado like my

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Speaker 2: sixteen year old daughter is, then she will tell you

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Speaker 2: that you don't really get the full story watching Drive

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Speaker 2: to Survive.

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Speaker 1: So no, you don't know, No, you don't. So This

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Speaker 1: has a lot of the behind the scenes, you know,

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Speaker 1: how the driver testing works and the simulators and all

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Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. So because you're a little bit

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Speaker 1: more insight than yeah, Drive to Survive if One does brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Catherine. Are those two books that

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Speaker 2: Catherine mentioned there to Die For by David Baldacci. And

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Speaker 2: also I must mention that he is actually coming to

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. He is doing one public event. It is

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Speaker 2: on Thursday, the thirtieth of January. It is happening in Auckland.

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Speaker 2: It has been presented by the Auckland Writers' Festival. So

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Speaker 2: if you are a fan of David's gripping suspense novels

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Speaker 2: and taught legal thrillers, you might want to come and

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Speaker 2: see him in person. So as I mentioned, that event

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Speaker 2: is on Thursday the thirtieth of January twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: and you can get your tickets from ticketmaster, dot co

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Speaker 2: dot NZ. The other book that Catherine mentioned there was

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Speaker 2: Inside Mercedes if One by Matt Wyman. It is eighteen

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