Midnight Black
-
-
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
-
-
- $7.99
-
- $7.99
Publisher Description
With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above zero, and the guards at Penal Colony IK22 are determined to take their misery out on the prisoners—chief among them, one Zoya Zakharova. Once a master spy for Russian foreign intelligence, then the partner and lover of the Gray Man, she has information the Kremlin wants, and they don't care what they have to do to get it.
But if they think a thousand miles of frozen wasteland and the combined power of the Russian police state is enough to protect them, they don't know the Gray Man. He's coming, and no one's safe.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Author Mark Greaney’s notorious Gray Man is either insanely fearless or fearlessly insane—okay, maybe a bit of both. This time around, ex-CIA sharpshooter Court Gentry is out to save his love, former Russian spy Zoya, who happens to be just as big of a badass as he is. She’s being held prisoner in Russia, so he enlists some Romanian gangsters to sneak him into the country. What could go wrong? Let’s just say he finds out quickly. Eventually, a team-up between Gentry, Russian rebels, and the Ukrainian government might be Zoya’s only hope. Greaney’s got a knack for digging deep into the nitty-gritty of high-stakes espionage and making you feel the full physicality of the danger that constantly surrounds Gentry. And he clearly relishes painting a protagonist with a murky moral compass. But for all the Gray Man’s complex characterization, Midnight Black is packed with unrelenting action and no-nonsense prose. The thrills-per-page quotient is off the charts.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The brisk latest entry in Greaney's Courtland Gentry series (after Sentinel) finds the ex-CIA operative bereft and unmoored. Though Court has been told that his lover, former Russian intelligence agent Zoya Zakharova, has been executed in a Moscow prison, he refuses to believe she's dead. Desperate to sneak into Russia and rescue her, he carries out contract assassinations for the Romanian mob in exchange for safe passage. When the mobsters betray him, Court knocks some heads, leaving him in need of a new strategy. Then Matthew Hanley, his former CIA handler, learns that Zoya is indeed alive, and is being held in the same prison as the wife of Natan Yarovoy, a jailed dissident. Hanley comes to Court with an audacious plan: a joint mission between Ukrainian military forces and Russian insurgents to rescue Yarovoy and his wife, which would allow Court to swoop in and save Zoya. Soon, however, Zoya learns that her imprisonment was little more than a trap for Court. Greaney's action scenes are as kinetic and chaotic as ever—especially an exhilarating chase through the Moscow subway—but it's Court's tender humanity when it comes to protecting his allies that shines brightest. This is one of Greaney's best yet.
Customer Reviews
AN AMAZING TALE
Great reading that kept up awake, denying of sleep for days.
Great series
One of the best book in the series so far, lots of action.
Excruciating
I LOVE Mark Greaney and all the Gray Man novels but this was impossible to care about. It was an effort to get through this one.