Gunmetal Gray

4.6 | 20,710 ratings

Price: 26.21

Last update: 08-26-2024

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Mark Greaney, the New York Times best-selling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world's deadliest assassin - the Gray Man.

After five years on the run, Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong. Normally the Chinese prefer to stay eyes-only on foreign agents. So why are they on such high alert? Court's high stakes hunt for answers takes him across Southeast Asia and leads to his old friend, Donald Fitzroy, who is being held hostage by the Chinese. Fitzroy was contracted to find Fan Jiang, a former member of an ultra-secret computer warfare unit responsible for testing China's own security systems. And it seems Fan may have been too good at his job - because China wants him dead. The first two kill teams Fitzroy sent to find Fan have disappeared, and the Chinese have decided to "supervise" the next operation. What they don't know is that Gentry's mission is to find Fan first and get whatever intel he has to the US. After that, all he has to do is get out alive.

JimA

good read

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024

Best gray man book I’ve read so far. Good page turner for the last half, first half was a little slow but still kept me interested

Amazon Customer

Just as good, if not better, with each new Gray man book

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

Great books! Constant action, enough detail to put you in the middle of the action but not too much to bore. Highly highly recommend!

James Ellsworth

Riveting Chase and Battle Book; Modern Frustration and Futility

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2017

Mark Greaney is a well-experienced writer who knows how to put riveting action plots together! I stayed up late and read this one in a single day. Readers who like stories with subtexts such as friendship, loyalty,patriotism and betrayal will find plenty of each of them beneath the covers of this single book. Readers who like 'modern' fiction where realities such as frustration and futility, even given heroic efforts will find this story both fantastic and believable. Mr. Greaney also has the gift of bringing many settings off the page and into your head: Hong Kong, a gritty triad bar, slick settings for international criminal networks, salty diesel-stinking cargo ships, Vietnamese rice paddys... The combat scenes and battle tactics are grounded and believable, including the part where luck sometimes plays and unexpected role. There are fighters in the field, bureaucrats in offices plotting and pulling strings, patriots and careerists: the whole package.

Ace Chinese Army computer hacker Fan Jiang is the pivot point for the plot. Throughout the story he is young, naive and thoroughly loyal to China. He is in for shocks and non-stop action as he tries to maintain his loyalties while running for his life. Courtney Gentry, 'The Gray Man', needs to retrieve him alive...so he hires himself out as an assassin tasked to kill Fan. Such are the ironies that abound in this story. The reader follows the action from battle to flight to battle but so good is the writing that each one is just as compelling as the last and none of them are stereotypical over the course of a full-length novel.

Joseph J. Truncale

This is the 6th book in the Gray Man series and is action packed.

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2024

As someone who has been a voracious reader for more than 7 decades my interests range from the scientific to the esoteric, and from classic literature to well-crafted spy/assassin novels. This is why I became hooked on the “Gray Man” series.

I just finished reading this 668 page paperback edition and found it to be an exciting and action packed thriller (Gunmetal Gray: a Gray man novel by Mark Greaney). This is the 6th book in this series, and I really enjoyed the ride.

From the very first page the author hooks you in and forces you to keep reading to find out what is coming next. This action packed tale involves the USA, Chinese, Vietnamese gangs, and the Russians. If you are a fan of the Gray man series by Mark Greaney you may want to check out this novel.

Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tanto-Jutsu: An official manual of Bushi Satori Ryu).

William C Scott

Good stuff

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024

I enjoyed this one, but it was a tad too long. There was lots going on, and it was a bit of a slow burn.

W & T Perry

Exploits in Southeast Asia

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024

Very entertaining thriller that has the Gray Man working for the CIA once again with a new director and a new handler for him. However, in this assignment, he is tasked to rescue/grab a Chinese defector, Fan Jiang, who is a computer genius and worked for the Chinese Military. However, other intelligence agency/groups from other countries, as well as gangs and paramilitary are also after Fan Jiang.

This novel has all the necessities of a great spy/political thriller, and the fact that the Chinese, Russians, U.S., and the gangs of Vietnam and Thailand, as well as a few Italians thrown in kept my interest. Set in Southeast Asia it had me pulling up maps on the internet to follow along.

Some of it was predictable to me, or was something I could see coming later in the book, but still Greaney has you guessing as well.

Folks who have not read any previous Gray Man novels could probably read this as a stand alone, but would recommend reading in order.

hollywoodstan

Fast paced and most enjoyable. A page turner.

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2017

I must admit, unlike some reviewers, this is the first book I've read by this author and so I was just introduced to the Gray Man. Knowing what I know now, I'm sorry I missed his earlier writings. This one was a good one and certainly kept me reading, chapter to chapter, evening to evening. Nice to read about really strong female characters because they add so much to the plot.
If you want a really good ride, pick it up. Doubt you will be disappointed. I suppose the author picked up another fan, looking forward to the next Gray Man adventure.

DPS

another fantastic read

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024

Mark Greaney did it again but better. What a wonderful read and rewarding to any fan of the gray man series.

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