Spiritual Successor: To The Sandbaggers, so much so it could have been called The Sandbaggers: The Next Generation. Rucka is not shy about acknowledging that he borrowed the structure of SIS and many of the character elements, though there are significant divergences - The Sandbaggers dealt largely with the realpolitik of the Cold War while Queen & Country mostly deals with the complexity of intelligence operations in a post-9/11 world, Rucka's D-Ops is happily married with kids, and most significantly, The Sandbaggers set their D-Ops as the protagonist, while Queen & Country primarily follows the character arc of one of the field agents.
