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Loading... A Gentleman's Gameby Greg Rucka
None. Slow start. Actually, very slow start. Lat 25% redeemed it. ( )If you like classic espionage, this may be for you. Reminded me of the UK television drama Spooks - and has about as much realism (which is to say, very little indeed) - but perfectly serviceable entertainment. Decent spy thriller with some serious inter agency turf wars. Topic is terrorism and the Saudis do not come out looking very good. Plot is a little hard to swallow but still makes a good yarn. Recommended for old school spy thriller addicts looking for a new author. A Queen and Country novel. 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. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2009/07/gentlemans-game-greg-rucka.html 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. no reviews | add a review
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