Catherine Raynes: Driven and Unlucky for Some

Driven by Susie Wolff  

Life in the fast lane, with a perspective like no other: Formula One superstar Susie Wolff lifts the bonnet on her incredible journey to the top of motorsport, and her ambitions for what comes next. 

  

Unlucky for Some by Tom Wood  

In his latest gripping adventure, the world’s deadliest assassin is all out of luck. 

Malmo, Sweden. What should have been a simple job - to kill the heir of an organised crime family - spirals out of control when assassin-for-hire Victor is shot and wounded. 

Forced to hide out in a hostile city while he recuperates, he doesn’t realise that multiple enemies are circling to take advantage of his circumstances. 

Faced with a vengeful criminal organisation, corrupt officials, ruthless bounty hunters, elite mercenaries, and the most dangerous assassin he’s ever faced, Victor’s luck has finally run out. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from Newstalks a'b our.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Resident petrol head slash book reviewer Katherin Rains is here
with her book picks for this weekend, and Catherine, I
knew you would like this one driven by Susie Wolfe
as your first pick for us this weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
So Susie was born in Scotland and she was born
into a racing family. Her mother and father both raced motorcycles,
so it was really no surprise that her and her
brother ended up racing as well. So she started a
motorcycles and soon switched to go katz at about the
age of eight. And then actually she decided at the
age of thirteen, when her uncle took her to a
Formula three race, that she actually wanted to be a

(00:45):
racing driver. So moving forward in time sort of that
success in cutting led to the next step and she
was really poised for greatness. She was twice final for
Young Driver the actually alongside if one greats Lewis Hamilton
and Nico Rosenberg. And then divaster struck and she ends
up slipping on some ice while taking her grandmother out
to some shops on an icy night and which is

(01:06):
her ankle, and so that time that she spent healing
meant that she had to start again, and she did
and she won a place in a championship for DMT
in Germany, and then she was offered a lifetime opportunity
to do twenty five laps in an F one William's
Formula one car, and she performed so well in that
test that she was given a new role at the
team that was developed just for her, and she became

(01:29):
a William's development driver and she was the first woman
to participate in F one in twenty two years, and
she eventually retired from that in twenty fifteen. But this
is a really interesting look at the inner workings of motorsport,
her triumphs, the setbacks, the motivations when she switches from
racing to the boardroom. She's now the manager of the

(01:49):
F one Academy and all female racing series and partially
inspired by her husband, Toto Wolf, who is the mind
and relentless drive behind Mercedes F one, And it's really
interesting about how she's been successful in her own right.
She's a real inspiration and she starts with sort of
the same and finishes with the same idea is that

(02:10):
when you're in the car, no one can tell the
difference between a male and female driver, so why do
we treat them differently? And it's a really good point.
It's one of the few sports actually that it just
makes no difference with your male female and you can
you can race. And she did that and yeah, and
it's impressive. And what she's done with The F one Academy,
which is a series of Netflix as well, is also

(02:31):
equally impressive.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh, super well, sounds really good. Okay, So, I mean,
I knew you'd be a fan, but that's something great.
So that's driven by Susie Wilf. Next up to tell
us about Unlucky for Some by Tom Wood.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
So this is about Victor the Assassin, and it's a
real thriller. It's got lots of quit and precision and
it's just enough to sort of keep you on edge
and you think about what's going on. And so Victor
is the world's most efficient assassin and he finds himself
actually hurt and cornered in Sweden and in the very

(03:04):
icy Scandinavian territories of Malamo, and he was there to
penetrate a crime family headed by a guy called Hannikinson,
and he encounters a colleague of his handler, and this
mysterious weapons procure, a guy called Scrag, And there's this
dangerous trade and rare heavy metals and counterfeites machinery. So
what began as really a simple job for him spirals

(03:26):
into complete chaos. And this predator and pray thing going
on in dangerous politics and international mercenaries, and that Scandinavian
setting as this real cold intensity even story, and that
real scandy no atmosphere is there, and the rusty shipping
containers and the chemical plants and this whole dangerous backdrop

(03:47):
to this game of survival. And Tom Woods just writes
an excellent thriller. It's smart, it's full of twists, and
it certainly gives you an edge of defeat ride and
it's the writings excellent. Can't recommend him high enough.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Awesome, Okay, cool. So that's unlucky for some, unlucky for
some by Tom Wood. Catherine Sery's book was driven by
Susan Wolf and both of those will be on the website.
Thank you, Katherine, have a great weekend and we will
be back with you once again. Next week.

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