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Bulletproof Mascara - Bethany Maines (2010)
All Nikki Lanier wanted was a nice holiday away from her mother, Nell. She attends a recruitment meeting for Carrie Mae Foundations - an organisation with door-to-door make-up salespersons. Miranda Meville aka Mrs M. offers Nikki a job but she is about to find out that it wasn't just make-up she signed up for. The Carrie Mae Foundation is actually a cover organisation for a group of female agents. Join Nikki as she undertakes training, uncovers the real uses for items such as lipstick, mascara and breath spray and goes on a crime-fighting spree with a pair of gorgeous flats in Thailand. This is an enjoyable, fast-paced read for women who love a good action story with a hint of femininity added to the mix. Nikki is James Bond with style. (PP)
Bulletproof Mascara, the debut novel by Bethany Maines, asks the question 'what do you get if you cross Avon Ladies with Charlie's Angels?' Nicole Lanier is an unemployed linguist who is living with her nagging mother. One day after another disastrous job interview, she signs up to become a make-up sales consultant. But being recruited for Carrie Mae, the at-home sales giant, proves tougher than she'd thought. Especially when Carrie Mae turns out to be a front for an all-female international espionage ring. Soon, Nikki's dodging bullets and carrying spy tools like a flash lipstick grenade and pepper spray perfume as she heads off on her first mission to Thailand. A sequel about chick lit's James Bond is underway. Maines, of Washington State, is a graphic designer, so it's well worth checking out her website.