by Mark Greaney
Part of Gray Man, book 2
First published 2014
Court Gentry operates as the Gray Man, a freelance assassin who kills for money after the CIA betrayed him four years earlier. He survived that betrayal only by eliminating his own team members. Now a former comrade he believed was dead approaches him with a blackmail scheme. The man forces Court to accept a mission with impossible terms. Instead of his usual assassination work, Court must kidnap a target alive. Worse, he must deliver this person directly to the same CIA handlers who originally turned against him. Court finds himself trapped between his unforgiving former employers and his blackmailing ex-colleague. The mission seems designed to fail, but Court has no choice but to attempt the dangerous kidnapping while navigating the deadly politics of his past.
Genres: adventure, thriller, action, espionage
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity
448 pages · Paperback · Berkley
Content warnings: violence