There seems to be a future tense cinematic awareness on her part but one can envision one’s own Billie, or Akiko, or Kevin by the way they move, their mannerisms, and the impact of their respective pasts. Raybourn tells you how people look with an easy swiftness. Secondary and even minor characters are sketched with sufficient verity. The main four women in Killers have solidity initially a bit too 007 but their eventually revealed backstories flesh them out credibly. They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman-and a killer-of a certain age.” 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. 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. “Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon.īillie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. As always, I am interested in the how and how well of a tale, not a specific running through of events.
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