The Last Run, Greg Rucka
Oct. 31st, 2010 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aJust finished The Last Run, Greg Rucka's newest novel, what he calls the end of volume one of Queen & Country. It was an obsessively readable novel. I rarely read a single book for more than a chapter or two at a sitting, but I wooshed right through the last half of the book--as an increasing number of cats gravitated to the bed, laying upon or against me.
(They're all sadly bereft now.)
Rucka has increasingly become my favorite thriller/action/espionage author. I loved all three of his Q&C novels (and in fact need to get myself copies of the first two, so that I can sit down and read through all the comics and novels again, now that I know how the story ends) and I've also been very fond of all of his later Atticus Kodiak novels. I'm pretty shocked that I don't seem to have any tags for him here. I guess I've just been tagging them generically under 'mystery books', using an overbroad definition.
I find it very interesting to contrast Kodiak and Q&C, because the Kodiak books are generally very small, personal books, while the Q&C books really do a good job of feeling like internationally important events. And Rucka does them both well.
I'm very hopefully that this conclusion of 'volume one' means that a new Q&C comic book series in in the offing, especially now that Rucka had ended his relationship with DC to return to his own work (not that I haven't loved some of his DC work, especially Gotham Central and Checkmate, both of which I should reread too).
(They're all sadly bereft now.)
Rucka has increasingly become my favorite thriller/action/espionage author. I loved all three of his Q&C novels (and in fact need to get myself copies of the first two, so that I can sit down and read through all the comics and novels again, now that I know how the story ends) and I've also been very fond of all of his later Atticus Kodiak novels. I'm pretty shocked that I don't seem to have any tags for him here. I guess I've just been tagging them generically under 'mystery books', using an overbroad definition.
I find it very interesting to contrast Kodiak and Q&C, because the Kodiak books are generally very small, personal books, while the Q&C books really do a good job of feeling like internationally important events. And Rucka does them both well.
I'm very hopefully that this conclusion of 'volume one' means that a new Q&C comic book series in in the offing, especially now that Rucka had ended his relationship with DC to return to his own work (not that I haven't loved some of his DC work, especially Gotham Central and Checkmate, both of which I should reread too).