Books

[dsrtao]

_All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye_, Christopher Brookmyre.

The movie The Long Kiss Goodnight takes a mythical uber-assassin, gives her an inconvenient case of amnesia, and reintroduces her a few years later as a normal person with a family. She begins to recover memories and skills...
Ludlum's _The Bourne Identity_ shows us the mythical uber-assassin with amnesia who immediately begins to recover skills, though not memories. The recent comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith shows us two uber-assassins who keep their secret identities hidden from each other. No amnesia, just cover stories.

Brookmyre takes a Scottish grandmother and turns her into (what else?) an uber-assassin, laughing all the way. Somehow, it's all reasonably believable, too.

If I hadn't already been an unabashed fan of Brookmyre, this would have made me one. I imagine he has a great deal of fun writing.

Comments

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

He has another book out?

Squee!

[dsrtao]

Published January 2005. New to me, anyway.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Pollifax gets training?

[dsrtao]

42ish recent grandmother, works out at the gym, has been a cab driver and clearly quite intelligent, just uneducated. Her weapons-engineer son goes missing; she foils a kidnapping attempt on her granddaughter, then goes to recover her now-kidnapped son and husband. It helps that there's a well-bankrolled but eccentric private security firm to help out and provide on-the-go training.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Okay, so not *quite* like Mrs. Pollifax. :) (Have you read those?)

A grandmother at 42. Well.

[dsrtao]

The teenage pregnancy cycle is part of the plot.

I had to look up Mrs. Pollifax -- sounds like fun.