{"id":1096,"date":"2014-03-02T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T01:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2014-03-02T20:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T01:37:24","slug":"book-review-the-last-run-by-greg-rucka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  The Last Run by Greg Rucka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7942746-queen-and-country\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen and Country: The Last Run\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1320549865m\/7942746.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7942746-queen-and-country\">Queen and Country: The Last Run<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/18327.Greg_Rucka\">Greg Rucka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/870068429\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Last Run is the final book in the Queen and Country trilogy (A Gentleman&#8217;s Game and Private Wars are the two others). The main character in the trilogy is a female secret agent, Tara Chace. In The Last Run, Tara has elected to retire but is sent on one final mission before her retirement.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve enjoyed all three books in the trilogy, but this one is perhaps my favorite. The characters are well developed by this final installment, and the plot is both complicated and filled with unexpected twists and turns. The pacing is fast and intense. And the ending is satisfying and a worthy concluding book to this trilogy.<br \/>\nWhile each book can be read as a standalone, it&#8217;s best to read the books in order. For a worthy addition to the thriller genre, I highly recommend this trilogy. And I look forward to reading the author&#8217;s other books!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen and Country: The Last Run by Greg Rucka My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Last Run is the final book in the Queen and Country trilogy (A Gentleman&#8217;s Game and Private Wars are the two others). The main character in the trilogy is a female secret agent, Tara Chace. In The Last Run, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,149,148],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-greg-rucka","tag-the-last-run"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-hG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}