The foursome have spent their entire adult lives in the service of the Museum only to be betrayed by the organization to which they have given so much.How does this make them susceptible to recruitment? Is this ethical? Each of the four is recruited very young, at a vulnerable point in her life.How would you characterize the relationship among the four assassins? How do they each fulfill their roles with regard to their respective talents?.The Museum is founded with the intention of bringing justice to those who have never been held accountable for their atrocities.I remember watching Diane Lane in one of the Superman movies and she’d be doing this gorgeous job playing Clark Kent’s adoptive mother and I was like, ‘OK, now where’s her cape?’ Let’s just widen the field a little bit, as to what these action-forward characters can look like. “It doesn’t look like what it used to look like.
(For the record, I believe this word should only apply to steak.) “It’s one of those interesting stages,” Raybourn said. This was the hardest book I’ve ever written, but it was also the most fun.”Īnd why was Raybourn so set on writing about women in their seventh decade of life - not elderly, by any stretch, but also not what many would consider the “prime” of life. It was very much a gesture of faith on their part that they thought I could do it.
And then I said, ‘I want to write my first contemporary,’ and that was kind of the needle-scratch-on-the-record moment. I said, ‘I want them to be killers,’ and they loved that idea. “I came back a week later and said, ‘I would want the characters to be 60s,’ and the company loved that idea. Her editor suggested that Raybourn get on the case. “They had apparently been sitting around chatting in the office one day saying, ‘Why don’t we have more books about older women doing kick-ass things?’” she said in a phone interview. Raybourn, who made a name for herself writing historical mysteries, said the idea of writing about, shall we say, seasoned characters originally came from her publisher, Berkley. “We have never actually killed and do not wish to, but oh, the vicarious satisfaction in following these four Valkyries as they battle arthritis and hot flashes to once again don their super-assassin personas and act.”
“We spend our lives nurturing precious life - our children, our grandchildren,” wrote one reader. A quick tour of Amazon reviews shows an overwhelmingly positive (even grateful) response. Why should young people hog all the heart-pounding adventure, not to mention the shelf space reserved for world-class assassins?ĭeanna Raybourn’s best-selling thriller, “ Killers of a Certain Age,” flips the script we’ve memorized from “La Femme Nikita” and “Ocean’s 8,” introducing women who are veteran killers in their 60s, equipped with all the perspective and perspicacity that comes with life experience.
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