Armored
The thrilling new action series from the author of The Gray Man
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4.1 • 146 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
One last job, out of the fire, and into hell...
'Armored's gritty military authenticity truly grips' --- THE TIMES
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series comes a very different kind of hero.
Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent - a professional bodyguard, and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg.
There's not much call for an elite bodyguard with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Jersey. For a man like Josh this is purgatory on earth, but even in Paramus miracles occur.
A lucky run in with an old comrade promises to get Josh back in the field for one last job. The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico, an area so dangerous it's known as Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Spine). Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive.
Soon to be a major film by Michael Bay, Armored is a gasp-a-minute rollercoaster of a thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ex-military contractor Josh Duffy, the hero of this enjoyable thriller from bestseller Greaney (the Gray Man series), lost a leg in his last mission and now works as a mall cop in Virginia. Low on self-esteem and struggling to provide for his family, Duffy leaps at the chance to join a private protection squad hired to guard a team of UN representatives venturing deep into Mexico in hopes of bringing peace to warring drug cartels and negotiating the return of 60 shoulder-launched missiles one cartel stole from the Mexican military. Fully aware that his new employer has a checkered reputation, Duffy ignores some early red flags and embarks with 21 other mercenaries into the Sierra Madre, all the while trying to conceal his prosthetic left leg. As the protection unit reaches a treacherous ridge known as the Devil's Spine, the cartels close in and Duffy discovers that he and his fellow mercs have been deceived from the start about the mission's true intent. Explosive action sequences follow as Duffy and company seek to retreat to flat land and safety, and Duffy proves to be more than just a hardened military tactician. Readers will hope he'll be back for an encore.
Customer Reviews
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Author
American. Took over the Jack Ryan series after Tom Clancy’s death. Best known for his own ‘Gray Man’ series. This was first published as an Audible Original, and has nothing to do with the 2009 heist film of the same name starring Matt Dillon.
Summary
Josh Duffy is early thirties and an ex-Army sergeant. His subsequent career in private military security (think Blackwater/Academi etc) ends when he loses his leg trying to protect a Lebanese politician in Beirut. Two years on, and our boy’s a suburban mall cop on minimum wage. He and the missus (a former Army captain) are struggling to feed and house their two children. (She runs a fledgling cleaning business.) Our boy runs into an old army buddy, who tells him he’s preparing to ship out on a mission in Mexico for a private contractor protecting a UN delegation trying to broker peace between warring drug cartels. The buddy tries to put him off (he’s only got one leg, the contractor’s dodgy, stuff like that), but our boy has dollar signs in his eyes. The buddy caves and gets him an interview. (We learn later that this was a ploy to lure him in.) Wifey’s not happy at first, but $35k for 3 weeks work is hard to resist. Things soon start to go wrong down in Mexico. Many people die amid double crosses aplenty. Expensive military equipment, including aircraft, is destroyed. Our boy and his damaged comrades exhibit derring-do and deploy a helluva a lotta ordinance. Wifey even gets involved.
Prose
Crisp, clean, pacy, action-filled prose, with lotsa technical detail about the weapons. It might not be literature but boo-yah to that. The sequel comes out in July.
Corny and far fetched
A good plot , but the miraculous storyline is way too much.