Book : The Gray Man - Greaney, Mark

-Titulo Original : The Gray Man

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Berkley

-Descripcion Original:

THE FIRST GRAY MAN NOVEL FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARK GREANEY-Now a Netflix Film Starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans “Hard, fast, and unflinching-exactly what a thriller should be.”-Lee Child To those who lurk in the shadows, he’s known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there’s no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive.... From Publishers Weekly In Greaneys fast-paced, fun debut thriller, Court The Gray Man Gentry, a former CIA operative now renowned as the ultimate killer for hire, is on the job in Syria and Iraq. To his shock, he learns that a team sent in to rescue him now has him targeted for elimination. On the run, Gentry slowly realizes that huge forces are marshaling against him, from his former government to the one man in England he always trusted. With unbelievable powers of survival, the Gray Man eludes teams of killers and deadly traps, while the reader begins to cheer for this unlikely hero. Cinematic battles and escapes fill out the simplistic but satisfying plot, and Greaney deftly provides small details to show Gentrys human side, offset by the petty rivalries and greed of his enemies. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “I LOVE THE GRAY MAN.”-#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child “BOURNE FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM.”-New York Times bestselling author James Rollins “Writing as smooth as stainless steel and a hero as mean as razor wire...The Gray Man glitters like a blade in an alley.”-New York Times bestselling author David Stone “A high-octane thriller that doesn’t pause for more than a second for all of its 464 pages...For readers looking for a thriller where the action comes fast and furious, this is the ticket.”-Chicago Sun-Times “Take fictional spy Jason Bourne, pump him up with Red Bull and meth, shake vigorously-and you’ve got the recipe for Court Gentry.”-The Memphis Commercial Appeal “From the opening pages, the bullets fly and the bodies pile up. Through the carnage, Gentry remains an intriguing protagonist with his own moral code.”-Booklist About the Author Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. In his research for the Gray Man novels, he traveled to more than thirty-five countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Warning: This excerpt contains content of an adult subject matter and adult language. PROLOGUE A flash of light in the distant morning sky captured the attention of the Land Rovers blood-soaked driver. Polarized Oakleys shielded his eyes from the brunt of the suns rays; still, he squinted through his windshields glare, desperate to identify the burning aircraft that now spun and hurtled towards earth, a smoldering comets tail of black smoke left hanging above it. It was a helicopter, a large Army Chinook, and horrific though the situation must have been for those on board, the driver of the Land Rover breathed a subdued sigh of relief. His extraction transport was to be a Russian-built KA-32T, crewed by Polish mercenaries and flown in from over the border in Tur