The Gray Man · Book 1

The Gray Man

by Mark Greaney

Published
29 September 2009
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780751550252
Type
novel

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About this book

The Gray Man (2009) introduces Court Gentry, a disavowed CIA black-ops asset turned freelance assassin, and became a mainstream hit well beyond thriller readers after its 2022 Russo brothers film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling. It runs 400 pages.

Its place in The Gray Man

The Gray Man is book 1 in the The Gray Man series. It is followed by On Target. 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…

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