Sierra Six
The action-packed new Gray Man novel - now a major Netflix film
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4.4 • 214 Ratings
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- $15.99
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Publisher Description
A TERRORIST BACK FROM THE DEAD. A DEBT TO BE PAID.
Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of a CIA action team.
In their first mission they took out a terrorist leader, but at a terrible price - the life of a woman Court cared for. Years have passed and now The Gray Man is on a simple mission when he sees a ghost: the long-dead terrorist, but he's remarkably energetic for a dead man.
A decade may have gone by but the Gray Man hasn't changed. He isn't one to leave a job unfinished or a blood debt unpaid.
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'I love the Gray Man'
Lee Child
'So propulsive, the murders so explosive, that flipping the pages feels like playing the ultimate videogame'
New York Times
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
Can’t get enough
Like all the books of this series, it was brilliant. My only complaint is that it’s too long between them. Thanks mate, a great read !!!!!!
Same Gray Man, different setting
The author is an American graduate in international relations and political science who writes techno-thrillers of the style popularised by Tom Clancy, which is probably why the late Mr C asked him to take over the Jack Ryan series. Mr G’s home grown action hero is Court Gentry, an ex-CIA turned freelance assassin with a moral compass of sorts.
This latest adventure pits our boy (pseudonym Cobalt) against a Hindu hating Indian Muslim terrorist, hell bent on setting off a dirty bomb in Mumbai. In a past life, the dude was a mole in Pakistani intelligence more intent on blowing up Americans, and was supposed to have died 12 years earlier. The only proof was DNA evidence supplied by the Pakistanis, but everyone accepted it, or did until our boy recognises him in Algeria. Cue twin high body count pursuits in different time frames (12 year earlier in flashback, as well as the present day) told in alternating chapters to double the fun. And the feeling of breathlessness.
Bottom line: The plots of Gray Man novels are indistinguishable, apart from setting. This two-for-one effort reveals nothing new about the hero.
The Genesis of Courtland Gentry completes me!
Great read and absolute page turner. I’m typically not a fan of books that swap timelines, and the same can be said for here. Just as you get momentum in what’s happening in one timeline, you’re pulled to another. I’ll frequently sack those types of books but this one kept me going beautifully, in no small part to my fascination on where the Gray Man hailed from. Great read, and highly recommended. I can’t wait for the next Gray Man adventure, and can’t wait for the Gray Man movie to be release mid July!