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Queen & Country 1: Operacion: Tierra Rota/ Operation: Broken Ground
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Public Square Books
Publication date October 30, 2005
Pages 128
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781594971525
ISBN-10 1594971528
Dimensions 0.25 by 6.75 by 10.25 in.
Weight 0.60 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Business
Original list price $22.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Three Special Operations Officers from the British Secret Intelligence Service form a team that is called upon for the most questionable missions, in this dark spy thriller series.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: DESCRIPCIÓN DEL LIBRO / BOOK DESCRIPTION:

Español:

¿Qué es Tierra Rota? Tara Chance, el mejor operativo del Servicio de Inteligencia del Reino Unido, ha sido destinada a Kosovo para una misión clasificada como alto secreto... en la que están involucradas la mafia rusa y la CIA.

English :

As part of the Special Section of Britain’s Ministry of Intelligence, Tara Chace is one of a handful of operatives codenamed "Minders"-the people they call when politics gets particularly dirty. In a world of questionable morals, is it better to assassinate a general in the Russian mafia, to take his life, rather than allow him to peddle more guns and drugs in underprivileged countries? Tara’s bosses seem to think so, and she is dispatched to Kosovo to take him out. Unfortunately for her, the action forces the Russian mafia to ask their own question-once someone has taken the life of one of their officers, can they continue to let that person live?

A major motion picture based on the Queen & Country series is in development by Fox.

Premios del Autor / Author Awards

2004 Harvey Award winner "Best Single Issue" for Gotham Central

2004 Eisner Award winner "Best Serialized Story" for Gotham Central

2003 Eisner Award winner "Best New Series" for Queen & Country

2000 Eisner Award winner "Best Limited Series" for Whiteout: Melt

AUTOR /AUTHOR

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Trabajos más conocidos // El nombre de Greg Rucka sonará a más de un lector por haber permanecido durante estancias más o menos prolongadas como guionista regular de las series mensuales de algunos de los iconos más reconocibles de DC y Marvel: Batman (en Detective Comics), Wonder Woman, Superman, Lobezno y Elektra. También se le encomendó escribir la miniserie Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra, que servía para narrar el origen de Elektra en la versión de la popular línea Ultimate de Marvel. Rucka también escribe (en colaboración con Ed Brubaker) la serie Gotham Central, protagonizada por el departamento de policías de Gotham City, la ciudad de Batman. En el campo de los comics de creación propia, con la editorial independiente Oni Press ha publicado las miniseries Whiteout y Whiteout: Melt y la serie regular Queen & Country (ambientada en el mundo del espionaje británico), trabajos que le han valido la nada despreciable cifra de de 2 Premios Eisner y otras 10 nominaciones a los mismos entre las ediciones de 1999 y 2003. Presentación // Greg Rucka es un caso curioso en el mundo del cómic en EEUU, ya que ya era un novelista de éxito y prestigio creciente dentro del género negro cuando se introduce en el mundo del cómic con la miniserie Whiteout (Oni Press, 1999). No tarda en llamar la atención de público y crítica, y es fichado por DC (y, posteriormente, por Marvel), donde llama la atención sobretodo su trabajo en Detective Comics con Batman. Paralelamente a sus trabajos de encargo paras las "dos grandes" desarrolla sus trabajos con personajes de creación propia (y de los que retiene los derechos de autor) para la editorial que le dió su primera oportunidad, Oni Press, con la secuela Whiteout: Melt y la serie regular derivada Queen & Country. En verano de 2003 Rucka firma un contrato en exclusiva con DC Comics por tres años (con la licencia de poder continuar con Queen & Country), y a principios de 2004 escribe simultaneamente a los tres personajes principales de la editorial: Superman (en Action Comics), Wonder Woman (en su serie regular) y Batman (en la serie limitada Death & the maidens). La anécdota // Rucka está casado Jen Van Meter, también guionista de comics y que ha escrito la serie de miniseries Hopeless Savages para Oni Press y la miniserie Cinamon: El Ciclo para DC/Vertigo. Rucka ha ganado dos Premios Eisner, en la edición del 2000 a la Mejor Serie Limitada por Whiteout: Melt y en la edición del 2002 a la Mejor Serie Nueva por Queen & Country.

Ha sido nominado al Premio Eisner al Mejor Guionista en cuatro ocasiones en un periodo de cinco años, en las ediciones de 1999 (por WhiteOut), 2000 (por Whiteout: Melt), 2002 (por Queen & Country y Detective Comics) y 2003 (por Queen & Country, Gotham Central y Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia).

Ha estado nominado en las categorías de Mejor historia serializadas dos años consecutivos por sendas historias de su serie Queen & Country, en los Premios Eisner 2002 (por los #1-4, con dibujos de Steve Rolston) y 2003 (por los números #8-12, con Leandro Fernández).

En los Premios Eisner 2003 fue nominado a la Mejor Serie Nueva (por Gotham Central), en los Premios Eisner 2000 a la de Mejor novela gráfica de material previamente publicado (por la recopilación en tomo de WhiteOut) y en los Premios Eisner 2002 a la Mejor Serie Regular (por Queen&Country).. .

Greg Rucka was born in San Francisco on a dark and stormy night (really, we checked), and then raised on the Monterey Peninsula of California, an area known to the locals as "Steinbeck Country." He came to writing early, entering his first short-story contest at the age of nine and stunning both his parents and himself by winning first prize in the competition. Thus encouraged, he continued writing, and couldn't win another contest of anything to save his life, at least until Whiteout: Melt won Best Limited Series at the Eisner Awards in 2000. He now sleeps with the Eisner beside him, on its own pillow, much to the despair of his wife and child. Greg attended Vassar College undergraduate. He had a splendid time, and thanks the institution for the education which he is now, gleefully, squandering. After Vassar, he attended USC for his Master's Degree. He didn't much like USC. The best thing about USC was that he and his wife got to live in a house that he could pretend Philip! Marlowe had visited. Probably to beat someone up. Greg and his family have happily resided in Portland for the last several years. This is also the home of Oni Press, and since they seem willing to publish just about anything Greg writes, he's inclined to stay close to them, in case they suddenly come to their senses. While currently able to make a living solely from his writings, Greg has held, and been fired from, countless jobs in the past, including: house painter, the restaurant industry triple-threat (busboy-dishwasher-waiter), emergency medical technician, security guard, technical writer, beta tester, and fight choreographer.Basically, he can't do anything but write. It's kind of sad, really.

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