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Loading... Queen & Country, Vol. 1: Operation Broken Ground (original 2001; edition 2002)by Greg Rucka (Author), Steve Rolston (Illustrator), Warren Ellis (Introduction), Tim Sale (Drawings)
Work InformationQueen & Country, Vol. 1: Operation Broken Ground by Greg Rucka (Author) (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I had no idea what to expect but everything that I read and heard made me think I wouldn't like it. The art threw me off at first too. But once I started reading it, I really enjoyed it. I am glad there are more because I am really looking forward to it. This first book feels too short - not because the story is incomplete, it just goes by faster than I wanted. And once I started reading, I really enjoyed the art with the story. Well done. ( ) My blog post about this book is at this link Summary: Queen and Country follows the agents - known as "Minders" - of the Special Ops branch of MI-6, Britain's Foreign Intelligence Service. The story opens with Minder Two, otherwise known as Tara Chace, in Kosovo on an unofficial and unauthorized assignment to assassinate a Russian mobster and warlord. The consequences of that mission are far-reaching, however, since the assassinated man had powerful friends, and they decide to strike back... targeted directly at MI-6, and at Chace in particular. Review: Political, spy, and special ops thrillers are not my usual genre of choice; in fact, I think they're probably on the far opposite end from my genres of choice. Therefore, I don't know that I am in any place to judge this book relative to others in the genre; it could be grittily accurate or fantastically off-base, and I would never know. I'm sure that I missed a lot of the subtleties of the inter- and intra-departmental conflict that was going on, just because I'm not familiar with the world or with the lingo. (In fact, the only reason I was able to follow what was going on at all was that I've watched the first season of MI:5.) But, lacking any comparative context, I did enjoy the story well enough, and I particularly liked the characterization of Tara. The thoughts and motivations of the people carrying out the special ops are always more interesting to me than the ops themselves, and while the characterization hasn't gotten too complex yet (it is still only Vol. 1), it's got a good foundation laid, and I'd be interested to see where Rucka takes the characters in the future. 3.5 out of 5 stars. Recommendation: Queen and Country would be best for people who like spy thrillers, but it also might be worth checking out for those who still think that graphic novels are only for folks who like fantasy, sci-fi, and superheroes.
It is a great read, taut action against a background of complicated alliances populated by intriguingly flawed three-dimensional characters. Is contained in
As part of the Special Section of Britain's Ministry of Intelligence, Tara Chace is one of a handful of operatives codenamed Minders-the people they call when politics gets particularly dirty. In a world of questionable morals, is it better to assassinate a general in the Russian mafia, to take his life, rather than allow him to peddle more guns and drugs in underprivileged countries? Tara's bosses seem to think so, and she is dispatched to Kosovo to take him out. Unfortunately for her, the action forces the Russian mafia to ask their own question-once someone has taken the life of one of their officers, can they continue to let that person live? The action sequences are fast-paced and exciting, but the truly engaging part of the book is how sharply Rucka and Rolston are able to define even minor characters. --Publisher's Weekly No library descriptions found. |
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