Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon.
They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills.
When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they’ve been marked for death.
Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman—and a killer—of a certain age.
Ramble-y Teaserish Stuff
The original intention was to have this be the Book Beginnings & Friday 56 post on the 2nd. I had the graphic made and the post started and then realized that I just couldn't do it. I couldn't limit myself to trying to adequately tease Billie, Helen, Natalie and Mary Alice in just two blips. I could have waited for a hard copy to appear (since I'm fairly certain that this will end up on my actual bookshelf) so then I could do a p56, p156, p256, etc ... but ... nope. One, I don't want to wait to share. Two, I'm on a "random buying freeze" for the next couple of weeks until my much needed vacation. Three, even then I would only have at most five blips to share and that still wouldn't be enough and there's no telling if any of the blips that I have highlighted in my Kindle and copied into my notebook would fall on any of the 56es.
Besides, this actually does fall into the "I'll Sleep When I've Read..." guidelines even if it wasn't just for the weekend. It was pretty much every day from Saturday to Wednesday.
It's a darling tale of four women on the brink of retirement.... after being international assassins for forty years. The books seamlessly flips between stories of their early years with the Museum to what may be their final days.... anywhere. Period. End of. Kaput. They've been set up and it's become a case of kill or be killed and these ladies have absolutely no intention of being killed. It's the perfect blend of humor and intrigue and the past and the present. I, for one, would very much like to see what's in store for the future.
If you want to share whatever has kept you up past your bedtime because you just needed one more chapter ... or the entire book ... please comment! My TBR pile is already toppling, but I can always add more.
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