This is a realistic, well-written graphic novel (I still call them comic books) series. Greg Rucka, who has a reputation for writing strong crime material, continues to impress here. There are no super heroics, no costumes or capes, just people doing the best they can to get by. STUMPTOWN fol...
I've been reading Rucka since he published his first novel, Keeper, and everything he does has a trademark grit and authenticity to it. Stumptown is no exception. I completed this first arc in one sitting and enjoyed it immensely. Set in Portland, it captures the feel of the city and the main p...
Freak beat builds on the story and character developments in the previous two trades and readers are rewarded with some even more amazing character development and cameos from main characters of the DCU.It took me a while to pick up the third trade, I had read/watched myself into a procedural cri...
I was as bitterly disappointed with this last volume of Gotham Central as I was in love with the first three. I felt like everything I liked about those solid, gritty police procedurals with a hint of Batman was lost in this book. One story is told from the perspective of some corrupt police. Ugh...
In Batman: No Man's Land, Greg Rucka tells the story of Gotham a ruined city filled with limitless crime and a earthquake which obliterated the city. Now the US Government has decided to break all connections with Gotham and has abandoned it, leaving the citizens of Gotham to defend and look afte...
Tara Chace may be the most dangerous woman alive. She can seduce you into believing she’s the woman of your dreams—or kill you with the icy efficiency of an executioner. As the new head of Special Operations for British Intelligence, she no longer has to court death in the field—she wants to.Thro...
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.Tara Chace was once the most dangerous woman alive. And now that the international spy network thinks she’s as good as dead, she’s even more dangerous than ...
In a heartbeat, a crowded auditorium or a city street can become a kill zone, where life and death are separated by a split second. For Atticus Kodiak, professional bodyguard, the object is to keep people alive, and there is no margin for error. Now Kodiak faces his toughest challenge: to protect...
Love your country. Fear your government. Know your enemy."You cannot learn what you have learned and remain unchanged."As a bodyguard, Atticus Kodiak once protected his clients against professional killers like Alena Cizkova, a.k.a. Drama. Now he is taking lessons from the world's premier assassi...
Greg Rucka has earned the kind of reputation that all thriller writers envy: his crime fiction grabs readers by the throat and compels them to read as if their own lives were at stake. Now, in an electrifying departure, Rucka creates a new kind of hero: a damaged young woman in free fall who’s no...
Chief of Mission to Uzbekistan 25 August, 2011 Hours (GMT+5:00) On 31 August 1991, Uzbekistan declared its independence from the disintegrating Soviet Union, following in the wake of the other newly forming independent states that surrounded it on all sides. In the grand scheme of nations and the...
The desk lamp threw long shadows on the cinderblock walls of the office.“You know, the Arabs think by doing this, with my feet like this, I’m saying you’re like the dirt on which I walk.” Borovsky grinned. “They would say it was an insult, Noah, that I’m saying you’re less than dirt.”Landau, stil...
"It's the world I was born and bred to. It's a required survival skill in a class-based society." She was seated on the edge of her bed, pulling on a pair of white cotton socks that looked stunningly inappropriate. I'd taken the seat by the dressing table, and we were alone for the time being, th...
was a mouthful, especially when the blaster fire was searing the air around them, they’d defaulted to shorter versions. In front of the officers, in front of Captain Phasma especially, they always used their appropriate designations, of course. But in the barracks and in combat, they used the nam...
He was a slender man, in his fifties, his left shoulder sitting at an angle higher than his right, the remnants of a wound taken during the War of Iraqi Aggression. He had come alone, but Shirazi took no comfort in that. As a member of the National Security Council, all it would take was a word, ...