Talking about killing for queen and country... How perfect. Tara Chase does James Bond better and more realistically than Ian Fleming ever did. Bond never had to deal with PAPERWORK and ever so volatile issues of diplomacy. Bond villains could be told a mile away by the twin Hindu bodyguards, or the diamond-encrusted revolver grafted onto the stump of a left arm, or the kitschily patrician name like Baron Herman Von Silverbullet. Chase's enemies look like bureaucrats, or like cops, or like pretty much anyone, and are all the more deadly for it. This is my favorite Q&C volume so far. It starts with the death of a certain beloved character, a death that must be avenged... but CAN it? And it goes on to the snows of Georgia, the better to show the blood spots. (That's Georgia the ex-Soviet country, not the state that cradles Hotlanta.) I love Greg Rucka. I really do think those Kodiak books of his are calling me. Oh, where art thou, time of idleness?
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The Kodiak books, at least the four I've read, are very good. Worth your time.
Oh, but once you get to Critical Space, don't read the back of the book, or any reviews. They spoil what ought to have been a pretty major plot twist. I've read five of these, it turns out, and there's two more I was unaware of.
Re: Ian
They're pretty popular paperbacks at the library I work in- I don't think Rucka gets enough ink or respect.
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