Sentinel
The relentlessly thrilling Armored series from the author of The Gray Man
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4.2 • 95 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series.
Josh Duffy and his wife Nikki are both working for the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service providing protection for diplomats in the field. They've been sent to Ghana with a team of US embassy personnel who are there to highlight American commitment to the construction of a new dam.
Since Ghana is a stable democracy, the Duffy children have come along for a short vacation. But stability proves to be fleeting when a Chinese plan to embarrass the US means the destruction of the dam. Now Josh and his protectees are on the run caught between a Chinese hit squad and a rebel army.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Greaney's excellent 11th Gray Man novel (after 2021's Relentless) delivers a double helping of honorable mercenary Courtland Gentry (aka the Gray Man), smoothly alternating between his first assignment with the "door kickers" of CIA paramilitary team Golf Sierra to interdict a terrorist group intent on detonating dirty radioactive bombs against American forces and his present-day quest for revenge on the planners of that enemy action. In the past, Gentry, though already a whispered figure in the halls at Langley, struggles to integrate his "singleton" lone-wolf strategies (and sometimes naive moral code) with unfamiliar military tactics, but team leader Zack Hightower is impressed with his almost-preternatural killing and tradecraft abilities, and Gentry is deployed with the squad to Pakistan. Twelve years after the devastating end of that mission, Gentry stumbles into his presumed-dead adversary, Murad Khan, on the cusp of staging an even deadlier evolution of his earlier plan. Greaney seamlessly adjusts focus between the timelines, jumping from one exhilarating roller-coaster ride to the other. Spy and military thriller fans will be well pleased.
Customer Reviews
Jungle book
This is the second instalment of a series based around army special forces turned private security consultant dude, who created mayhem in Mexico as a privateer first time at bat, and does the same this time while employed by US diplomatic security in Ghana. Did I mention he has an artificial leg — a better model now he works for the government — and that his kickass ex-army helicopter pilot wife who came to his rescue in Mexico, now works for the State department in the US embassy in Accra. Add Russian ex-Wagner mercenaries, Chinese spies, West African rebels, Iran-backed Islamists terrorists, and some common or garden African political corruption and what have you got? A Mark Greaney novel, that’s what.
The body count, amount of blood shed, ordnance deployed and damage done to physical structures (buildings, dams, helicopters, cars, trucks, army barracks, suburban homes etc) is impressive, even by the author’s lofty standards. Even Duffy’s elementary age kids get involved this time. Mr G will probably have to conscript his in-laws for Volume 3. The kids will still be getting therapy.
At the risk of sounding like a blue stater, I found it a little over the top, although I did learn some things I didn’t know about Ghana, like how green it was, not just because of the jungle. It has the largest manmade lake in the world which generates mucho hydroelectricity, although for how much longer remains uncertain because flow in the Volta river is drying up as a result of global warming.