There is a distinct lack of action in these books. Really fucked up shit happens in these books and Rucka is not afraid of having the story go into unexpected directions that are incredibly compelling. But she's incredibly good at what she does and there's a line in here that makes me SO desperate for Rucka to keep telling this story beyond the most recently released novel (which, I'll admit, I haven't read, but I have heard Rucka give interviews where he establishes what post-Last Run Queen & Country novels look like and I just want it).Īnd that's the compelling thing. She deals with it exceptionally poorly (as we saw in the first volume).
Tara Chase should probably not be in this profession. It will not be over until everyone in this intelligence community is either dead or retired, because there is work as needs doing. "Operation: Stormfront" or "Operation: Dandelion") that all build on not only what the first volume of Queen & Country established, but also where Queen & Country is going.īecause the selling point of Queen & Country is that this story never ends. Now that we're out of the scene setting, this book pushes the limits of what Queen & Country can do by telling three utterly phenomenal Queen & Country stories (established in the books as "Operations", e.g. The first volume is so much about the politics and the establishing of what sorts of stories Queen & Country is interested in telling. That's what's gripping about the first volume of Queen & Country, anyways. The selling point is that it's "real", that Greg Rucka has done his research, that this is how it actually works in the real world what with spies having to deal with not just real world footwork, but the people controlling the spies having to deal with actual bureaucracy, political entanglements, and real world consequences. It's one of my favourite spy stories ever by one of my favourite comic writers. Queen & Country is the "no let's make it real" answer to James Bond. I mean, Austin Powers referenced its first movie in its first sequel and it was honestly more lip service than you see in most James Bond movies. The Bond girl will always be there, but different.
It'll follow the same basic structure just about every time. There isn't (for the most part) overarching continuity. One of the big selling points of James Bond is how much every James Bond movie can be your first James Bond movie.
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