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.
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.
QUOTE: “We looked like a girl gang that would have the Queen as our leader, all low heels and no-nonsense curls.”
Angela’s Review
I read this book in one day – once it gets going, it goes fast and is hard to put down. The part I liked best was how all of them, especially Billie, rely on stereotypes about older women to get past or through situations. Sexism and misogyny are deliberately used as their cover in their plans and their daily work, and the snarky bits of humor that mock the sexism and ageism punctuate the tense moments.
Their greatest asset is that as women, and as women who are 60+, they are very used to being underestimated, ignored, or devalued. After 40 years as covert assassins, they know how to read a situation, track a subject, and create an opportunity to eliminate their target. They can get close to people in ways that others cannot, and they can instantly read a situation to their own advantage. I loved these sassy characters and I enjoyed the social commentary about not underestimating women or older people. If you like clever people doing everything they can think of to survive and being outrageously smart about it, you’ll like this story.