Back Blast
A Gray Man Novel
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4.2 • 152 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
From Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, comes the fifth explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man…
Five years ago, Court Gentry was the CIA’s best covert asset. Then, without warning, his masters at the Agency put him at the top of their kill list. Court fled his country and became an enigmatic killer for hire known as the Gray Man.
Determined to find out what made the Agency turn against him, he plans to get his hands on the men who sent him on his last mission, Operation BACK BLAST. What he doesn’t realize is that the questions that arose from his time as an American assassin are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he’s stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps.
The result: everyone has Court in their crosshairs...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Greaney's rousing fifth Gray Man novel (after 2013's Dead Eye), ex-CIA operative Court Gentry returns to the U.S. after five years dodging the kill order that has followed him all over the world. He needs to know why Denny Carmichael, the director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, issued the order; if Gentry has to leave a string of bodies behind him to get at the truth, then so be it. Gentry slowly ferrets out various official reasons for the original shoot-on-sight order, which stemmed from an early operation, Back Blast, when he supposedly went rogue and killed the wrong person while executing the op. Gentry is positive he's innocent, but the evidence continues to mount, until even he's no longer sure what happened. Greaney's unraveling of the Back Blast mystery is masterly, but it's the Gray Man's ability to outthink and outgun the scores of men who are hunting him throughout the streets of Washington, D.C., that will keep readers glued to the pages. Author tour.
Customer Reviews
Back Blast
Excellent Book. Each one in series seems better.
Dead Eye
GREAT BOOK!
One technical glitch. If a .300 Win Mag was zeroed for 375 yards you would aim LOW not high to shoot someone between the eyes at 125 yards. In reality you would likely aim for the solar plexus to shoot someone "between the eyes" at 125 yards with a .300 Win Mag zeroed at 375 yards.
If the rifle was zeroed at 125 yards you would aim about 18" above the top of the head to shoot someone "between the eyes" at 375 yards.
That being said, very minor glitch. LOVED THE WHOLE SERIES! Well done.