Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7797 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-20
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye belongs to the 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. --Roz Kaveney

Evan Ferguson, Observer
'A sharp, memorable and occasionally surprisingly touching book'

Daily Telegraph
'Memorably funny lines'

Customer Reviews

Silly, but fun
Very, very silly - but very good fun.

Don't try and get serious with the plot, you'll ruin it. Some of the best entertainment you can have with this book is casting the movie version. I still can't make my mind up who should play the heroine.

Incredibly inventive
I bought this book to go on holiday - having never read anything by Christopher Brookmyre before I had no idea what to expect, but I loved the description on the back cover.
It did not disappoint, it was so witty and glamorous, yet and down-to-earth and wicked at the same time. I loved the juxtaposition of the smooth, mysterious Bett and the no-nonsense Mum. It was seamless, fast paced and exciting, managing to combine high-tech gadgetry (boy stuff) with real feelings and emotions of a frustrated bored housewife. I would highly recommend reading this.

Exciting yet weak
I read this book and was gripped from the first page onwards. It is however based on a weak plot with a predictable ending. This book was so promising and its seems a shame that it ended up being only average. Dont be put off by CB, I heard his other books are very good.