Queen and Country
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Queen and Country is a comic book published by Oni Press and written by Greg Rucka with various artists illustrating.
The series centers around secret agent Tara Chace, who is an operative of the Special Operations Section of SIS, colloquially known as the Minders. It attempts to portray the bureaucracy and politics with which the agents deal with realistically, as well as including the dangerous missions typical of the spy genre.
It was inspired by the British television series The Sandbaggers (1978-1980), which was created and primarily written by Ian Mackintosh. Mackintosh is heavily praised in an essay by Rucka in Issue #1 of Queen and Country.
A Queen and Country prose novel, A Gentleman's Game, was published in 2004. The novel also features Tara Chace and makes reference to the events of the comic book series. Special "Declassified" issues of the comic book have also been published and deal specifically with the past missions of various characters.
Other recurring characters in the series alongside Tara Chace include Director of Operations Paul Crocker, Deputy Chief of Service Donald Weldon, Chief of Service Frances Barclay AKA 'C', Mission Control Officer AKA Main Communications Officer Alexis and Former Head of Special Section Tom Wallace.
A motion picture is also under development.