The Fun of Oldies but Goodies

 

Wild Women Authors decided to take a break from our usual post about a current release by one author and take a look at what we call oldies but goodies: those books we keep on a shelf and revisit every so often. 

It’s sort of like coming home after a long time away or, like us, that annual reunion of our nursing school class. No matter how many years ‘the Marcy girls’ have been apart [ala Covid restrictions and, sadly, age] after five minutes it’s like we’re back to the old routine.

Years ago, as a young mother with three kids and a husband in graduate school, money was short and better spent on food, diapers and rent—never on a book. But then, while browsing in a secondhand bookstore, we discovered a series of political thrillers written by John R. Maxim. In them we found new friends and new adventures with Paul Bannerman and his posse of retired contract agents.

Here's the cover blurb from Maxim’s first book in this series, The Bannerman Solution: “... behind the Maginot Line of safe houses and front operations in Westport, Connecticut are Paul Bannerman and his elite group of contract agents. These [now retired] ruthless killers look no different from their neighbors. They run restaurants, a travel agency, a ski shop—until people in power try to bring them out of retirement…” 

With each successive book in this series, we settled into our battered arm chair and came to know more about the unique characters Mr. Maxim created, their fears, foibles and hidden terrors—and with each one it’s like meeting up with old friends for a nice visit.

Our question to you is: how many of you do the same as us?