Fiction

摘要

Imagine waking up to discover that your Alzheimer's-striken mom had been an action figure. That's the fate of Martin Tal-bot, who unearths a 1958 diary kept by his mother. A New York street vigilante in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Judy Tal-bot later inspired a comic book series and an Angelina Jolie movie, as well as the action figure. Most of Benson's (James Bond: Choice of Weapons) thriller excerpts Judy's diary detailing her attempts, devoid of superhuman powers (a la Batman), to teach herself boxing and karate, as well as to wield the weapon that provides her crime-fighting name, the Black Stiletto; she's equally adept in stiletto heels and sews her own threads, one set for summer and another for win- with meth labs, dog-fighting rings, and all manner of substance abuse, the stories are connected by recurring characters.