by Mark Greaney
Part of Gray Man, book 11
First published 2022
Court Gentry begins this mission as Sierra Six, the newest member of Zack Hightower's CIA Special Activities team Golf Sierra. His teammates call them the Goon Squad. Court possesses deadly skills but struggles to work with others. Weeks of brutal training transform him into a functioning team member. Their first operation targets a terrorist leader. They complete the kill, but the mission extracts a brutal price. A decade passes. Court now operates as the Gray Man on what should be routine work. Then he spots the terrorist leader he eliminated years before. The man appears very much alive despite being very much dead. Court faces an impossible situation. Someone he killed walks the earth again. The Gray Man never abandons unfinished business. He refuses to let blood debts go unpaid. This encounter forces him to confront his past as Sierra Six and the true cost of that first mission.
Genres: military-fiction, adventure, mystery, thriller, action, espionage
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Sierra
Period: Decade
528 pages · Kindle Edition · Berkley
Content warnings: violence