How would you describe them? Which do you relate to more? Which talents would you bring to a mission?Ĩ. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie each bring something unique to their missions. How would you describe her? She allows circumstances to play out in order to secure the future of the Museum even though this puts the four assassins at greater risk. Naomi Ndiaye is a character who performs a critical role in the plot. How do each of the flashback missions relate to the current kills?Ħ. How does this betrayal drive their actions?ĥ. 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?Ĥ. 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?ģ. The Museum is founded with the intention of bringing justice to those who have never been held accountable for their atrocities.

They’re about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman-and a killer-of a certain age.ġ. 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

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