![]() ![]() And the women that do survive the disease, don't seem to survive childbirth. This is a post infectious disease world, where very few men and even fewer women and children survive. So many books depend on continual pending disaster. The other characteristic that really stood out was that the plot didn't depend on putting the main character in imminent danger over and over again, as a way to move the plot. ![]() Unfortunately most of them don't end up well. The story was fascinating, and as another reviewer stated, one of the best things about the story is the author tells you how the characters the protagonist meets along the way, actually end up. If not for the writer's tic of overusing "something = something", I would have given it a perfect 5 stars. ![]() In spite of my headline, I really enjoyed this book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In “Queen & Country” the glamour of 007’s employer is stripped away in favor of telling lean and very mean stories about the extraordinary and extraordinarily flawed people, the minders and their masters, in the Special Section of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. The first volume of Oni Press’s classy “Queen & Country” Definitive Editions collects issues 1-12 (the first three missions, plus an interlude tied into the first arc). In this first collection of the Eisner Award-winning and critically lauded espionage series, readers are introduced to the thrilling and often-times devastating world of international espionage as SIS field agent Tara Chase is sent all over the world in service to her Queen & Country. 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