About The Author
GREG RUCKA
has worked at a variety of jobs, from theatrical fight choreographer to emergency medical technician. The author of
Critical Space, Keeper,
and four previous thrillers, he resides with his wife and two sons in Portland, Oregon, where he is at work on his next Queen & Country novel, which Bantam will publish in 2005.
Also by Greg Rucka
Keeper
Finder
Smoker
Shooting at Midnight
Critical Space
A Fistful of Rain
A GENTLEMAN
’
S GAME
A Bantam Book / October 2004
Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Tara Chace and others originally appeared in the comic series
Queen & Country,
published by Oni Press, copyright © by Greg Rucka.
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 by Greg Rucka
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rucka, Greg.
A gentleman’s game : a queen & country novel / Greg Rucka.
p. cm.
1. Women intelligence officers—Fiction. 2. British—Saudi Arabia—Fiction. 3. Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. 5. Saudi Arabia—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.U2968G46 2004
813'.54—dc22 2004045093
eISBN: 978-0-553-90103-0
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