The Gray Man
Court Gentry, codenamed Sierra Six and nicknamed the Gray Man for his ability to disappear in plain sight, is a former CIA operative turned elite freelance assassin. He has taken a contract in Iraq to eliminate a dangerous warlord, and the hit goes cleanly. The aftermath does not. His employer has sold him out to a veteran French industrialist named Lloyd, who wants Gentry erased to protect the warlord's brother, and he sends every private operator on the continent after him. Pinned down in Europe with no safe house, a wounded leg, and a family of hostages he has reasons to protect, Gentry runs from Iraq to Hungary while the body count grows. Mark Greaney's novel launches the long-running Gray Man series of lean, technically detailed black-ops thrillers.
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Court Gentry, code-named the Gray Man, is a former CIA officer who works as a freelance assassin out of a Geneva safe house. After a hit on a Nigerian oil minister's brother, every team in his old agency and a French private army are sent to kill him on a run across Europe.
Mark Greaney has written more than 13 Gray Man novels and continues the series.
Yes. Netflix released a 2022 film adaptation directed by the Russo brothers and starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. A sequel film has been announced.
The Gray Man was written by Mark Greaney, published in 2012 by Berkley.
The Gray Man is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Gray Man takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
The Gray Man is a standalone novel by Mark Greaney, not part of a series.
The Gray Man is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
