Good Girls Die Bored
A Novel
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Publisher Description
“Perfect Elizabeth Little—fun but deep, slick but meaty, suspenseful and satisfying . . . totally recommended.”—Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
A gripping, emotionally charged thriller with an unforgettable heroine from the acclaimed author of Dear Daughter . . .
“My name’s Juno Hardwick—and I’m here to save your life.”
Juno Hardwick’s a fighter—or at least she thought she was. A year ago, she had a promising career influencing national security policy at the highest levels. Then her father died and her life fell apart. Now she's in Los Angeles, rotting on the couch with her sister during the day, working as a bouncer at a bikini bar at night.
So when her best friend Min, a former CIA officer, invites her to join a high-profile security detail, Juno sees a way back to the person she used to be. It's a straightforward job: protect an investigative journalist whose exposés have made her powerful enemies, get her safely through a glittering museum gala, collect a paycheck. Mission accomplished.
But from the moment Juno meets her new team—an enigmatic ex-SEAL, a brilliant engineer, a failed actress, a retired FBI agent who hates her guts—something feels off. They're underprepared and out of sync, and the client, who made a career out of exposing other people's secrets, clearly has a few of her own. Meanwhile, Min's playing a deeper game than she's letting on, treating Juno less like one of the players and more like one of the pawns.
As the gala approaches, Juno finds herself fighting on two fronts, and while she’s used to dealing with enemies on the battlefield, she’s not prepared for traitors in her midst. In a world where everyone has something to hide—including herself—Juno is forced to consider the possibility that loyalty might be the deadliest weapon of all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A ex–military intelligence officer is roped into a deadly security operation in this jumbled thriller from Little (Dear Daughter). Juno Hardwick has left behind a career in national security to care for her sister, who suffered a mental breakdown in Los Angeles after their father's death. When Min, a former CIA operative and old friend, offers Juno a job in private security, it appears to be a simple assignment protecting Maelle Ruiz, a prominent journalist whose muckraking has put her in the crosshairs of many a power broker, at a gala. Quickly, however, the gig balloons into a high-stakes operation in which Juno's colleagues seem more interested in mining secrets than protecting their client. Before long, Juno learns that there's a traitor among her security detail, and she has to ferret them out. The author peppers so many twists into the narrative that it becomes exhausting, especially because she rarely takes the time to explain the motivations of her large cast. The result is a jolting joyride that adds up to less than the sum of its parts.
