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_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.
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.
