Book Description
For Tara Chace and the Minders, Afghanistan has been a political hotspot for years. When the taleban regime discovers that some foreign journalists are also serving as covert-agents for the SIS, they round up all the reporters in Kabul to attempt to root out the spies. Moments before being taken into custody, David MacMillan stashes a list of United Front contacts in South Afghanistan in a secret hiding spot, keeping it out of the hands of the enemy. If the Minders don’t find it before the taleban, it means many more lives could be lost. When Director of Operations Paul Crocker decides to send only his male agents into the field, it doesn’t sit well with Tara, who would rather be in the action than sitting the mission out at home. Adding insult to injury, she is currently required to attend therapy sessions to deal with the effects of previous operations. Not content to sit on her hands, Tara spends her time trying to piece together the puzzle, aiding Minders Wallace and Kittering in their race against the clock. This second collection of the acclaimed series QUEEN & COUNTRY breaks new ground for comics, tackling tough subject matter in a realistic and intriguing way. Never has an espionage comic dealt so harshly with the realities of the world intelligence community and international politics.
Publisher comments
Greg Rucka is the award-winning author of both comic books and prose novels. Before entering the world of graphic literature, he had made his mark on the crime genre by writing the highly successful Atticus Kodiak novels—KEEPER, FINDER, SMOKER, SHOOTING AT MIDNIGHT, and CRITICAL SPACE—for Bantam. He made his comic book debut in 1997 with WHITEOUT, a collaboration with artist Steve Lieber for Oni Press, which was soon followed by a critically acclaimed run on DC’s Batman series, DETECTIVE COMICS, and the Eisner Award-winning WHITEOUT: MELT. Rucka has since written innumerable comics for various companies and written three comics-related novels, BATMAN: NO MAN’S LAND, GRENDEL: PAST-PRIME, and WOLVERINE/ELEKTRA: REDEEMER. Never one to rest, Rucka is currently writing the regular QUEEN & COUNTRY series for Oni; has taken over scripting chores on Marvel’s ELEKTRA and BLACK WIDOW series; collaborating with artist J.G. Jones on the Wonder Woman hardcover THE HIKETEIA (DC Comics); and is putting the finishing touches on his sixth novel, A FISTFUL OF RAIN.
