However, soon enough, on of their own targets them for assassination, naturally failing in the process. It’s time for them to retire, and the four are sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to celebrate the occasion. Today, it’s all about technology, and their talents simply don’t mix with modern standards. Unfortunately, they live in a world where nobody really appreciates the people skills they’ve come to acquire over the decades. Forty proud years of under-the-radar assassinations, which ironically-enough, got easier and easier as they became older and more disarming. Billie, Mary, Helen and Natalie have been a part of it for a long time, with over forty years of service under their belts. The story opens by introducing us to four once-valued members of the Museum, the afore-mentioned organization. In Deanna Raybourn‘s Killers of a Certain Age, the top-level members of an assassin organization is about to find that out the hard way. People born and moulded in the world of yesterday are often looked down upon as holders of obsolete knowledge and skills, quite erroneously I should add. The world of today is moving faster than ever, causing generational gaps to grow wider and wider by the minute.
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