Sunday Trade: Queen & Country

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Queen & Country - Operation: Storm Front
Written by Greg Rucka
Art by Carla Speed McNeil

Volume 5 colection of Rucka's brilliant story of British espionage. Tara Chace is a Minder, one of S.I.S. elite field agents. In this arc Agent Chace attempts to rescue a Russian businessman from Georgia. The Eastern European one, not the American state. Which is just what she needs as a distraction from the death of Minder and ex-lover Ed Kittering...

Queen & Country, isn't James Bondian espionage. No hi-tech gizmos or ninjas or Monte Carlo gambling. Its street level, down and dirty, smell the blood and cordite spies. Its also easy to spot the influence of the old Brit show The Sandbaggers on the series...

As for why I'm highlighting this volume rather than one of the other seven or the three Queen & Country - Declassified? I just love McNeil's art...