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Loading... A Gentleman's Gameby Greg RuckaSeries: Queen and Country Novels (book 1), Queen and Country Complete (book 8)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This was one of the best straightforward espionage thrillers that I've read in a long time. The best way to describe the style of the story would be a cross between James Bond and Quiller (I know that doesn't make much sense, but trust me...). Tara Chase is a terrific new heroine in the espionage genre and both the "world" in which she operates and the missions themselves, felt much more accurate and real than many (most?) other espionage thrillers. The story is more serious in tone than many Bond stories (hence the comparison to Quiller), but Chace has many foibles that remind me a bit of Bond. Highly recommended. I'm completely hooked. When I got to the last page, I actually checked the back of the end pages making sure I hadn't missed anything; I just did not want this to end. Especially not the devastating way it did. If you haven't read any of Rucka's wonderful comic/graphic novel series Queen & Country, you'd still be able to enjoy this novel as a stand alone. Some of the histories between the characters might seem a little vague, so if you like reading stories with pictures, don't hesitate to read Q&C. This is a highly sensitive story that starts with a terrorist attack on the London Underground. The counterstrike leads to unexpected consequences for Tara Chace, Minder One for the Special Section of the SIS. And that's all you're getting because any more would be telling. no reviews | add a review
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An Islamic terrorist attack kills several hundred people on London's Underground, so, of course, the government wants payback. Their target is the religious inspirational head of the particular group responsible. Special Operations is tasked to put together a plan to assassinate him, and Minder One, Tara Chace, wants the job. Trouble is, she has to do it Yemen.
The mission leads to complications, and a three way tangle between the CIA, MI5, Mossad with Special Operations and Chace's head literally in the middle.
The only way out is to remove the terrorist group in question's base of operations in terminal fashion.
A well done superspy thriller.
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