All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye

All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye is the ninth novel by Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre.

Jane Fleming, a 46-year-old housewife and grandmother, lives a quiet life in suburban East Kilbride. All that changes when her son, Ross, who works in the arms industry, is forced into hiding when his latest research attracts unwanted attention. Aided by the mysterious Bett, Jane must confront drug dealers, assassins and ruthless arms dealers in order to save her son.


 * Action Mom
 * Embarrassing First Name:
 * Enemy Mine: This doesn't quite work out.
 * Fairy Tale Motifs : Lots of Shout Outs to Beauty and The Beast.
 * Genre Savvy: Bett, most of the time.
 * Insufferable Genius: Most of Bett's team, and Ross Fleming, have their moments of this. Bett goes out of his way to live up to this one.
 * Mama Bear: Jane/Blue Bell
 * Magnificent Bastard: Bett and
 * Manipulative Bastard: As above.
 * Never Mess with Granny: Jane.
 * Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: What Bett's team might have been if he didn't streamline them so brutally
 * Something He Would Never Say
 * Teen Genius: Alexis and most of the rest of Bett's team.
 * The Wrong Right Thing: Jane's husband and his options.