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From Mark Greaney, the New York Times best-selling author of Mission Critical and a coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, comes another high-stakes thriller featuring the world’s most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man.
While on a mission to Croatia, Court Gentry uncovers a human trafficking operation. The trail leads from the Balkans all the way back to Hollywood.
Court is determined to shut it down, but his CIA handlers have other plans. The criminal ringleader has actionable intelligence about a potentially devastating terrorist attack on the US. The CIA won’t move until they have that intel. It’s a moral balancing act with Court at the pivot point.
Customers say
Customers enjoy the book’s action-packed story with plenty of intrigue, and find it a fun, nonstop read with excellent character development featuring favorite background characters. The book maintains a steady pace throughout, with one customer noting it keeps readers glued from start to finish. The writing quality receives mixed feedback, with some praising the sharp dialogue while others find it poorly written. The emotional content is also mixed, with some customers finding it disturbing.
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Steve Clay –
High quality book
Book arrived fast and was in great condition.
Joseph J. Truncale –
An action packed Gray man novel that keeps you turning the pages.
As someone who has been a fan of âthe gray manâ series for quite a while I just finished reading this 638- page thriller (One Minute out: A Gray Man Novel by Mark Greaney) which is the 9th book in the popular assassin/spy series.Like all the books in this series, this one grabs you from the first page and keeps you turning the pages to find out what is going to happen next. I found this novel especially intriguing. What begins as a simple long distance assassin job of an old very bad guy who lives in a protected large house that is protected by numerous armed guards but turns into something much more sinister.Even though Cortland Gentry, the Gray Man, did his job eliminating the evil bad guy; nevertheless, when he finds numerous innocent young women who had been kidnapped into sex slavery, his decides to investigate who is behind the slave trade.I never give too much information when reviewing any novel, but if you like the âGran Manâ series, you may want to check out this one. I enjoyed it very much.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective Combative Systems).
AC –
The Gray Man is back
Court Gentry (aka the Gray Man) is in Croatia to snipe a war criminal. As he watches the old man through his scope, though, he decides that far away through a scope just won’t do, and this man needs an up close and personal visit. Despite the presence of a small personal army and a couple of dogs guarding the war criminal, Gentry makes his way into the house only to find the old man not in his bed. Following sounds he hears, he makes his way into a basement and finds over twenty women and girls chained to the walls there. One woman, who was loose because the old man was about to bring her upstairs and assault her, runs out of the house (despite the presence of that small army and a couple of dogs). Gentry kills the old man and then wants to free the women, but one of their number tells him to leave, as he can’t protect all of them, and they will be punished worse if they leave and are recaptured.Gentry reluctantly leaves them but vows to find them again and free them, and also to bust the human sex trafficking ring he has stumbled across.The story moves from Croatia to Italy to the US, as Gentry follows the pipeline of women moved from country to country. Along the way, he picks up an ally – one of the womens’ sister, who works in financial fraud for EUROPOL – and she heads off on a side trek to engage the services of a hacker. after telling Gentry that not only is there a sex trafficking ring, there’s an ocean of bad money being laundered in the process. Meanwhile, Gentry keeps dogging the pipeline, killing quite a number of people in his path and getting beat up at various locales.SPOILERS FROM HEREThe evidence continues to pile up, and when it points to a US-based businessman and movie exec as the ringleader, Gentry calls his office – the CIA – and asks for help. When it’s denied for reasons he isn’t told, he requests help from another, more personal source: a bad guy in Italy, where the women will be sold at auction. The bigshot US businessman will also be in attendance at this particular stop even though his head of security advises him against it, and Gentry wants to get to him somehow, and kill him. On the evening of the auction, Gentry spots members of a special ops team, realizes they’re hunting him, and eventually there’s a big firefight, with the bad guys hoping on a private plane with two women marked for “special handling” – that is, to serve as sex slaves for he crooked businessman.Gentry makes his way back to the States via a pretty humorous (considering the circumstances) method, and gets to California. Based on information provided by the EUROPOL analyst, he makes his way to the bigshot’s house. He realizes he can’t take the entire compound by himself, so enlists the help of some old operators (and I mean older in ago, as in, this sort of thing is a young person’s game). After killing some more bad guys, and talking the bigshot’s personal security out of protecting the bigshot, Gentry has come face to face with the bad guy – but he promised the CIA he wouldn’t kill the guy, because the guy is an asset to the CIA, providing information on the flow of money and arms around the world. Since Gentry can’t kill the bad guy, he shoots the bad guy right in the crotch, blowing his junk off. I guess that means no more sexytimes for him, assaulting or otherwise, although the way medicine is these days, and the fact that he’s a billionaire, it could be entirely possible bad guy could get his nether regions redone and go right back to his evil ways. On the other hand, it’s made clear in the last few chapters that the gad guy needs ED drugs and coke in order to be able to perform, so maybe not.Gentry then walks away from the house, despite the LAPD showing up in huge numbers. He climbs into a van holding some CIA dudes, and they drive off into the sunset.END SPOILERSThe end of the book evokes The Shawshank Redemption (or, for the pedants, “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”) with a litany of “hopes”. This book really does seem to be one of the more adaptable ones of the series for the big screen, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see it adapted into a screenplay and made into a movie starring some actor everyone will either love or hate, with the hate side pointing out all the ways X could not possibly be the Gray Man.Overall, if you like the Gray Man series, you’ll like this book. I do, and I did.Four solid stars out of five.
Kindle Customer –
One Minute Out
Well what can I say but the Gray Man does it again! Court Gentry can’t help himself. He hunts down sex traffickers who took young women and girls. Non stop action from Europe to the west of America!!
Gregory P. Alford –
Gentry is one tough dude
I canât wait to start the next book. This guyâs moral compass makes him a hero, but a very deadly one. Another great Gray Man adventure. However, he really needs a vacation so he can heal.
elmo –
Hope isnât a strategy, but sometimes itâs all you have!
Another smashing Gray Man yarn with several twists and turns. If you love Court you will enjoy this book. Gentry helps the innocent again and acquires a few more scars!
Jon –
good story, eh to first person
It was a good story with lots of action. But I didnât like the first person narrative sections very much. I rather prefer the storytelling style of the other books.
CA –
Top Shelf Thriller
Non-stop action! One of the best; that explains the sickness of the sex slave trade going on in the world!
AimHigh7 –
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tiz –
Story is fine, style horrible and jumbled and less in character. Also increasingly like a saint, which gets annoying. Hope next one better
Greg Dixon –
Action aplenty, even if some of it is over-the-top, but compelling reading about serious nasty people and the Gray Man’s crusade to give them what’s due to them.Great reading.
Amazon Kunde –
All in order
Rulian –
Achei esse um dos livros menos interessantes da série. A trama é meio forçada e tem poucos elementos de polÃtica e espionagem A história fica um pouco enrolada e confusa no meio, mas no final é puro Gray Man. Então para o que gostam da ideia de um contra cem a história vale a pena.