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"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"--… (altro)
What happens when 4 women who have worked together for 40 years decide to retire and take a luxury cruise together? What if those women are actually highly trained assassins?
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie board a luxury cruise ship to celebrate their retirement from the Museum. However, when Billie spots a younger colleague aboard the ship, she begins to wonder if someone isn't looking to make their retirement more rest in peace. As the women use their training and limited resources, they come to realize that the Board has put out a bounty on them. Can they take out the board before the board takes them out?
Full of witty banter and girl power this is a tongue in check paean to the power of the invisible older woman. ( )
Great premise ("Golden Girls" meets "Burn Notice") and a fun listen. Neither narrator is great with men's voices, and one character is given a Cockney accent that nearly made me stop listening. ( )
This book was fun to read, especially as it dealt with older women turning the fact that most people underestimate them into an advantage. I liked the interplay among the protagonists.
Lot's of action. Too many conveniences and convoluted killings. Wouldn't trained assassins just shoot their targets? But that wouldn't be much of a story. Less character development. than I look for.
Like I said, a fun read. I won't remember any of the characters' names next week. ( )
Skills, teamwork, and being underestimated are the keys to the Sphynxes success. Their camaraderie and loyalty never waned in 40 years as assassins. Some of their shenanigans made me laugh aloud. ( )
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I have wintered into wisdom. --Beowulf
Dedica
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For P. You were right. I could. And I did.
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"My mother always says it's common as pig tracks to go around with a run in your stocking," Helen says, eyeing Billie's ripped hosiery critically.
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"Only women are ever called persnickety," Mary Alice said. "Men get to be 'detail oriented.'"
I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the Pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep with a man, guilt if we say no. Guilt if we're lucky enough to survive for no good reason. I'm so damned sick of it. I've never been so tired of anything in my life.
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But they were still singing, and they went on singing until dawn broke over the trees.
"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"--
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Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie board a luxury cruise ship to celebrate their retirement from the Museum. However, when Billie spots a younger colleague aboard the ship, she begins to wonder if someone isn't looking to make their retirement more rest in peace. As the women use their training and limited resources, they come to realize that the Board has put out a bounty on them. Can they take out the board before the board takes them out?
Full of witty banter and girl power this is a tongue in check paean to the power of the invisible older woman. ( )