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All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre

Description: ISBN 0349117454 / Author: Christopher Brookmyre / Genre: Crime / Thriller / All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye belongs to the ... more

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre ... half of Brookmyre's work less concerned with the state of the Scottish nation and more with what happens when iconically ordinary Scots are dumped into the middle of Hollywood plots. Here, we have, on the one hand, an international trouble-shooting organization most of whose agents are on the run from some sort of trouble themselves, and, on the other, a forty-something grandmother aware that life has passed her by and was not meant to. When someone tries to kidnap her grand-daughter, she responds with inventive viciousness; told to save her family by making a South of France rendezvous, she steals passports, cars and tickets as if she has always been doing it. Recruited merely as an expert on a missing boffin who happens to be her son, Jane demonstrates that the quiet desperation of ordinary life is the best training a super agent could have...This is Brookmyre at his most slyly subversive and viscerally exciting, a daydream which never quite becomes preposterous.

Newest Review: ... Eastenders leading them and then add a couple of female operatives and you have the general idea. Actually that makes it ... more

... nothing like Ultimate Force but I stick by my analogy. Obviously the two events do become linked and you are left with a fast paced story which was a very enjoyable read and one that I certainly found very entertaining for the couple of days it took for me to wiz through it. Some of the character development is a little far fetched at times, it certainly seems a huge leap of faith to accept some of the changes that take place with regards to Jane character and without wanting to give two much away of the storyline her tr...more

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All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre: Who you calling A-FAG? (756 words)
by freediveheaven - written on 04/10/06 (Very useful, 168 readings)
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I have long been a big Brookmyre fan and in particular books featuring Jack Parlabane an Edinburgh journalist, these books have a dark humour and great storyline however this particular offering is slightly different to Brookmyre normal work and is more of a straight action thriller with a large slice of satire added for good measure. The story opens with two contrasting scenes, Jane Fleming a bored housewife in Glasgow who is staring at her reflection and struggling to recognise the woman she has become, her feelings of being old and dowdy not helped by the fact that the aged check-out assistant at the supermarket has just inferred that the two of them being ...

Disapointing book considering the potential (236 words)
by samueltyler - written on 04/10/06 (Useful, 17 readings)
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What do you think of when I say 'Granny'? A blue rinse? Home baked apple pies? An old women working on her cross-stitch? Well stop, because this is modern day Glasgow where a granny can be 43 years old and have plenty of life left in her. It’s this central premise that makes 'All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye' initially interesting. Jane Fleming is over 40, stuck in a loveless marriage and with no kids to look after - bored. That is until one day when her grandchild is abducted - what would you do to save your kin? In Jane's case it involves gambling, fast cars, guns and underwater attacks! With this description you could be fooled into ...

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