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How do you create these menacing, violent characters without going overboard?

There are several villains in PRIVATE WARS and you do a great job of keeping these characters believable. Each of the novels can be read alone, of course, but at the heart there’s a larger body of work to support the stories. I view it all as a continuum of a sort–the Q&C comics and the Q&C novels are all part of the same, larger, story. Novels allow for a deeper examination of issues, and more involved story, but the feel and the mood of the series remains the same. In the main, the two ‘versions’ are identical, at least in feel. It’s set in the ‘real world,’ and deals with topical politics, and an honest look at the costs of espionage in the modern world.

The series follows a woman, Tara Chace, who is a Special Operations Officer for the SIS, the British equivalent of the CIA. Queen & Country started life as an ongoing comic book series published by Oni Press. Reviewįor readers who are new to your work, what is the Queen & Country series? And what are the differences and similarities between the graphic titles and the Queen & Country novels? For in a battle where betrayal is a conventional weapon, loyalty is a weakness, and anyone — even a child — is a legitimate target: it's every spy, every woman, for herself.Ĭombine a thriller that defies every expectation with a heroine for whom nothing is out of bounds, and the result is Private Wars, a suspense novel so explosively realistic, it should be classified. Now, as she vanishes into hostile territory with a man who may or may not be what he seems, Tara is going to find out that the war on terror is more terrifying than anyone knows.

Tara's job is to slip into the country and extract Dina's pro-Western husband and their young son before they are murdered — by his ruthless sister.īut there are a couple of wild cards in the deck, including a missing mobile weapons system that can bring down a commercial airliner, not to mention powerful political careers.

The torture and execution of Dina Malikov has set off a cutthroat grab for power in strategically crucial Uzbekistan. Only one thing could coax Tara back into the game: a chance to vindicate herself. And now that the international spy network thinks she's as good as dead, she's even more dangerous than ever. Tara Chace was once the most dangerous woman alive. Only Greg Rucka, the thriller genre's most fearless writer, would dare create a spy so edgy, so explosive, so extreme, she should be rated X.