Private Wars( Series - Queen And Country )

Secret agent Tara Chace, introduced in "A Gentleman's Game," is coaxed back into the game with a chance to vindicate herself. Sent to Uzbekistan, Tara is going to find out that the War on Terror is more terrifying than anyone knows.

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 ever.
Only one thing could coax Tara back into the game: a chance to vindicate herself. The torture and execution of Dina Malikov has set off a cutthroat grab for power in strategically crucial Uzbekistan. Tara' s job is to slip into the country and extract Dina' s pro-Western husband and their young son before they are murdered-- by his ruthless sister.
But there are a couple of wild cards in the deck, including a missing mobile weapons system that can bring down a commercial airliner, not to mention powerful political careers. Now, as she vanishes into hostile territory with a man who may or may not be what he seems, Tara is going to find out that the war on terror is more terrifying than anyone knows. For in a battle where betrayal is a conventional weapon, loyalty is a weakness, and anyone-- even a child-- is a legitimate target: it' s every spy, every woman, for herself.
Combine a thriller that defies every expectation with a heroine for whom nothing is out of bounds, and the result is Private Wars, a suspense novel so explosively realistic, it should be classified.

"From the Hardcover edition."