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All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye
Christopher Brookmyre
Intrigue. Espionage. Advanced technology. Clinical violence. Hoovering. It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye...
How long are you young? According to Jane Fleming, it's as long as you believe you can still take what you want from life, still chase your hopes, still change. But now she's forty-six, three years a grandmother, and coming to accept that she no longer meets the criteria. Jane has always played by the rules, acted selflessly and responsibly, done her duty as a wife and mum, never hurt anybody, never cheated, never lied, never broken the law, never even had a parking ticket.
However, she's about to put all of that right in a very big way...
Proto-hacker Lex Richardson is less worried about getting old than whether she'll live to do so if she continues to work for the taciturn, solitary and seldom less than sinister Bett. A scientist has gone missing after developing an idea of such potential humanitarian benefit that no end of powerful individuals are going to want him dead, and Lex's outfit has been charged with getting between him and his pursuers. Bett reckons they need to bring in a specialist: someone resourceful, fearless, uncompromising and utterly merciless in pursuit of the objective. Given what they may be up against, Lex would tend to agree. It's just who Bett has in mind that's got her worried.
Brookmyre's work tends to fall into two distinct categories. Those that are concerned with the Scottish nation those where a normal Scotsperson finds themselves in the middle of a Hollywood set. AFAG... falls into the latter. The protagonist here is a forty something grandmother who realises theat her life has passed her by and hasn't quite gone as she would have liked it. After her son is kidnapped, she becomes involved with a trouble seeking organisation as the race is on to save her family.
An enjoyable read, although unlike some of his previous books after I finished it there seemed to be less that stuck in my mind about the plot/characters than previous works. I kinda wish that I could see the characters again as I felt that by the end I was just getting into them and then it finishes.
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