by Mark Greaney
Part of Gray Man, book 15
First published 2026
Court Gentry operates from a Norfolk office park as part of Ghost Town, an unofficial CIA team handling sensitive missions. When a safe house burns in Tunis and Court barely survives a jungle ambush in Nicaragua, a pattern emerges. Someone is systematically targeting US counterintelligence officers, killing them in their own neighborhoods. Court and his team must hunt down professional assassination squads while the federal agencies remain compromised. The threat escalates when Whetstone, a legendary killer, emerges from retirement with a personal mission. This isn't another contract job. Whetstone wants to destroy Court and everyone connected to him, including the father Court hasn't spoken to in two decades. Court discovers he has become the hunted rather than the hunter, facing an adversary whose skills match his own but whose motivation runs deeper than money or patriotism.
Genres: military-fiction, adventure, suspense, action, mystery-thriller, espionage
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, the-hunted
Setting: Nicaragua, Norfolk, Tunis
489 pages · Kindle Edition · Berkley
Content warnings: violence