![]() 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. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. 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. “Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. ![]() (Admittedly that might not be the lesson you’re supposed to take away from the story, but damn if Raybourn doesn’t make stepping into the shoes of these characters’ a thrill.) Anyway, here’s a brief rundown of the plot, courtesy of the publisher: (Approximately.) Also, I want them to train me to be an assassin, post-haste. It’s an action-packed, globe-trotting thriller starring four heroines in their 60s, and I have no complaints other than that I wish it was a series with one hundred more books for me to devour. You want a few words to describe Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn? OK, here goes: * Lady Gaga voice* talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same. ![]()
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