killers of a certain age deanna raybourn

Thereafter, she spent her teens in foster care and on the streets. She had been raised by a single mother always looking for love until she abandoned Billie in a Mall pizza place when she was twelve. It seems that their organization would prefer to have them dead rather than pay their retirement pensions.Billie, Mary Anne, Helen and Natalie have been invited on a cruise to celebrate their retirement only to learn that another assassin is there to blow up the ship and see that they don't survive.This story is told by Billie who was recruited after a college protest in 1979. It is time for them to retire, but things don't go smoothly. This story tells about four women, aged sixty, who have worked for a clandestine organization for forty years. 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. 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.īillie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. “This Golden Girls meets James Bond thriller is a journey you want to be part of.” -Buzzfeed

Killers of a certain age deanna raybourn