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On a celebratory cruise turned deadly, they must use decades of tradecraft to survive.
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Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Killers of a Certain Age
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Berkley (Penguin Random House)
Four women who have spent forty years as elite assassins are ready to retire, until they realize their own organization has marked them for death.
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Four women recruited in the 1970s have spent four decades quietly killing bad men for a shadowy organization - and now, on the cusp of retirement, they discover that the same organization wants them gone.
Deanna Raybourn's brisk, gleeful thriller sends its sexagenarian assassins into a fight for survival that doubles as a comedy about the peculiar superpower of being an older woman: utterly lethal, and completely overlooked.
Raybourn alternates a propulsive present-day chase with flashbacks to the women's earliest missions, building camaraderie and backstory without slowing the action, and she clearly relishes letting her heroines weaponize the world's tendency to dismiss them. It never pretends to be more than expertly made entertainment, but on that level it is a delight - witty, action-packed and warmly female-centered.
For readers who want a thriller that is pure fun with a feminist wink, these are exactly the killers to spend a few hundred pages with.
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Pages
368
Published
2022
Berkley (Penguin Random House)
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Format
Hardcover
US first edition
Language
English
Mystery, Crime & Thriller
ISBN
978-0593200681
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