Queen & Country, Vol. 1: Operation Broken Ground
by Greg Rucka, Warren EllisSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in March, 2008
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My initial encounter with QUEEN & COUNTRY came a couple years ago when I got a copy of the first issue on "Free Comic Book Day". I really liked the story and wanted to read more, but it wasn't until recently that I managed to get my hands on a copy of Volume 1, which collects issues 1-4.
QUEEN & COUNTRY centers around the adventures of Tara Chace, a covert operative in the employ of the British government. This first volume features her assasination attempt on a Russian gu...more
QUEEN & COUNTRY centers around the adventures of Tara Chace, a covert operative in the employ of the British government. This first volume features her assasination attempt on a Russian gu...more
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Read in September, 2007
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Rucka fans, spy fans, 70's British TV fans
While I was seriously enjoying Greg Rucka's Whiteout, I was drawn to the character of Lilly Sharpe. Sharpe is a smart, beautiful, witty, and caring individual, and as you might know from my previous review, makes one heck of a romantic pairing with Carrie Stetko. I was towards the end of Whiteout when I remembered that Rucka also had a series out called Queen & Country. I also remembered, from the covers, that its lead was a blond British agent. I quickly ordered the first graphic novel...more
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Read in August, 2007
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Fans of espionage thrillers, people looking for a good female protagonist
Tara Chace is a "minder" in Britain's Special Intelligence Service--their term for special agents sent on Her Majesty's most secret, most dangerous missions, where people are all but guaranteed to be killed. Sometimes killing people is the point of the mission, as it is when Tara goes to Kosovo to assassinate a big wig in the Russian mafia who's been causing too much trouble for Western power brokers working in the already turbulent Balkans. She succeeds, but the Mafioso's associates...more
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Queen & Country is Greg Rucka's ongoing comic series following a British MI6 agent named Tara Chace. It's spies and clandestine operations, intelligence and bureaucracy. In this story, Tara is on a mission to recover something from an informant who's disappeared in pre-9/11 Afghanistan. The chilling spy procedural is rife with loads of tradecraft (how do you spot a dead drop in a place you've never been?). It's fun for intel freaks. My big complaint about this series is that Rucka writes mos...more
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Read in June, 2008
this series shows the inner workings of a british intelligence unit. heavy on bureaucracy and bucking (and sometimes following) protocol. a deadly female protagonist? i should love this book. i don't. although the portrayal of operations is probably truer than any other espionage series out there, i don't want to read about it. i no like bureaucracy. the illustrations are cartoony, but suitable. sometimes detailed, sometimes sparse.
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Read in June, 2008
This comic is about British intelligence, and very interesting on the psychological front. The protagonist is a sole woman in a field of men. She is very passionate about and committed to her work, but it just might kill her, after she kills her first person on assignment. It's a page turner.
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The best spy series I have read to date. Greg Rucka has his finger on the pulse of both the literary world and the political world. Dealing with some issues in the world before most world authorities even realize the problem exists, Rucka is sure to open your eyes.
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Read in August, 2007
The working world of espionage and assasination; more Le Carre than Bond. Chain smoking and trading favors, exotic locations on the map marked less by landscape than by remembrances of who shot whom and which crosses were doubled or tripled.
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Read in March, 2004
A gritty take on the espionage genre. The artwork is very clean-looking and the plotlines are thrilling.
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This series has been my favorite "comic" for a few years now. So badass it's ridiculous
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