On target

On target

Mark Greaney

Book - 2014

"Four years ago, Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. To survive, he had to eliminate his own brothers in arms. Now, as a master assassin known as the Gray Man, he makes his living killing other people. But when an old comrade he thought dead returns to haunt him, his own life is put in the crosshairs. The man wants Court to complete a mission, with one crucial catch to his orders: Instead of a difficult assassination, the job will entail a near impossible kidnapping--and Court must return his quarry to the very CIA team that turned on him. With his unforgiving employers on one side, his blackmailing former friends on the other, and a doomed mission ahead, Court Gentry would kill to get out of this one alive."--

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Subjects
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > Fiction.
Assassins > Fiction.
Extortion > Fiction.
Kidnapping > Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Genres
Suspense fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
New York, New York : Berkley Books 2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Mark Greaney (-)
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition
Physical Description
433 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780425276396
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Disgraced former CIA agent Court "The Gray Man" Gentry (introduced in 2009's The Gray Man) makes ends meet as an assassin working for clients he cannot trust. Russian arms merchant Sidorenko wants Court to kill Sudan's President Abboud, arguably the man responsible for the genocide in Darfur. The CIA makes a counteroffer: kidnap Abboud and give him to American officials in exchange for amnesty. Court cannot refuse and treks through Sudan in pursuit of nebulous, ever-changing goals. Every element in this book is familiar, but Court is endearing in his perseverance even as his schemes are undermined by sympathetic victims, misleading information, outright lies, poor planning, betrayal, conflicting agendas, and simple bad luck. What could have been a storm of cliches becomes an action-filled yet touching story of a man whose reason has long ago been subsumed by his work ethic. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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