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Penguin Publishing Group · Paperback · January 3, 2017
From Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, comes the fifth explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man… Five years ago, Court Gentry was the CIA’s best covert asset.
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- Who it’s for
- A hunted assassin’s search for answers leads into a secret the intelligence community wants buried.
- Themes
- Covert intelligence, Agency betrayal, Buried secrets
- Pacing
- Fast
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From Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, comes the fifth explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man… Five years ago, Court Gentry was the CIA’s best covert asset. Then, without warning, his masters at the Agency put him at the top of their kill list. Court fled his country and became an enigmatic killer for hire known as the Gray Man.
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Determined to find out what made the Agency turn against him, he plans to get his hands on the men who sent him on his last mission, Operation BACK BLAST. What he doesn’t realize is that the questions that arose from his time as an American assassin are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he’s stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. The result: everyone has Court in their crosshairs...
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A hunted assassin’s search for answers leads into a secret the intelligence community wants buried.
Come here for
- Covert-ops tension and a killer on the run
- Questions about why the Agency turned against its former asset
Expect
- A pursuit that reaches into the U.S. intelligence community
- A thriller built around secrets and shifting danger
Where it sits
| Spy Fiction | 87% |
|---|---|
| Military Thrillers | 63% |
| Action & Adventure | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Spy Fiction
- Political Thrillers
- Authors
- Mark Greaney
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- January 3, 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Covert intelligence · Agency betrayal · Buried secrets
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure