This ongoing spy comic is like a gritty TV show about the unglamorous lives of British spies: long periods of waiting around and office politics punctuated by sudden deadly action. The artwork seems to have settled down a bit by this third volume -- I found the changing styles for the first two quite disconcerting. In this book Tara Chace is gradually coming apart. The second part is set after a Tara Chace novel by the same author where apparently Tara has gone AWOL in the Middle East, fallen in love with her former number one, and watched him die. All very stressful, and this book shows the consequences. As the psychologist mentions to Tara, drinking and denial are not good cures for PTSD. But her boss Paul Crocker sends her back into the field anyway. Probably not a good call in this case.

Also included was a script for volume one. I normally don't really enjoy reading scripts, but it's always interesting to see how different comic artists work, and this one had some insightful footnotes by the author. ( )

http://geekylibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/review-queen-country-vol3/ ( )