![]() ![]() ![]() The blistering prologue establishes that Sentro knows her way around an exfiltration, despite a mix-up about the hotel room where the victim is being held. Into this maelstrom comes Aubrey Sentro, the heroine of Daniel Pyne’s “Water Memory” - a former government agent who now works black ops missions for a private security firm called Solomon Systems. ![]() But Stieg Larsson and the myriad 21st century writers who stand on their shoulders have taken those characters to new heights of physical prowess - even as they sometimes sucked plot, character development and even logic into their thrillers’ action-packed vortex. Of course this wasn’t exactly new: Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller and other writers of previous generations wrote female protagonists who take no tea for the fever. When “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” was published some 15 years ago, it accelerated an unofficial crime subgenre with a rebooted style of heroine - the kick-ass female. ![]()
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