Just to be clear, this is not a graphic novel. Greg Rucka started his career as a mystery/spy novel author. He has had astounding success in the graphic novel/comic field, but he also continues to write non-graphic novels (although I have no idea where he finds the time). A Gentleman’s Game is a spy...
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This is not James Bond. This is not “The Bourne Identity” or Tom Clancy. This is better. Operation: Broken Ground establishes the world of Queen and Country, a grittier darker look at what it means to be a spy in the modern world. Tara Chace is Minder 2 in the SIS, a British intelligence...
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This is the second in the series of Queen and Country graphic novels written by Greg Rucka. When the Taliban arrests foreign journalists in Afghanistan on the suspicion that some of them might be passing information to British intelligence, SIS has to react. Tara Chace is outraged at the Taliban’s treatment of women, and...
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This is the third volume of Greg Rucka’s Queen and Country series. Again drawing from current events, Rucka explores the threat of terrorist groups and the fear of biological weapons. When an Egyptian with potential links to a terrorist group walks into the British Embassy and announces that he has information of interest Tara...
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A British media mogul is being blackmailed by the French government for media contract rights. The French have set up a honey trap using his daughter, Rachel, as bait. They have compromising video footage of her with a man they hired to seduce her. Tara is chosen to go to Paris because she used...
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Reading this volume it occurs to me, not for the first time, that I don’t want Tara’s life. When Minder 3 dies unexpectedly in Caracas everyone in the department is affected, none more so than Tara who was sleeping with him and possibly a little in love with him. There is an immediate assumption...
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Sometimes your enemy doesn’t come from the outside. Sometimes your enemies are the very people you should be able to trust the most. When C has a stroke, it opens up the position of Chief of S.I.S. Crocker and the Minders get caught in the vicious competition between different departments in the service to...
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There aren’t many career advancement opportunities for Minders, assuming you survive long enough to need them. One of the only options for Minders is to become Director of Operations which makes this book particularly interesting as an indication of who Tara might become, and an examination of why Crocker is who he is. This...
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