Back Blast

Its place in The Gray Man

Back Blast is book 5 in the The Gray Man series. It follows Dead Eye. It is followed by Gunmetal Gray. See the full The Gray Man reading order.

Court Gentry — the Gray Man — is a disavowed former CIA black-ops asset who now works as one of the world's most sought-after freelance assassins, taking on jobs (and increasingly, off-book missions for old CIA handlers) that pit him against rival intelligence services, cartels, private military contractors and other elite killers. Mark Greaney writes brutally kinetic, tradecraft-heavy action that unfolds in real geopolitical hotspots, and the series has only gotten bigger in scope as it's gone on: later books…