Mission Critical

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From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of GUNMETAL GRAY and a co-author of Tom Clancy's JACK RYAN novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man.

Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley.

When they land in an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force and the prisoner is kidnapped. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers, but what can one operative do against a trained team of assassins A lot, when that operative is the Gray Man.

Reviews

Hard, fast, and unflinching - exactly what a thriller should be - Lee Child on The Gray Man

Mark Greaney's The Gray Man is Bourne for the new millennium - James Rollins

A high-octane thriller that doesn't pause for more than a second. For readers looking for a thriller where the action comes fast and furious, this is the ticket - Chicago Sun Times on The Gray Man

The exemplary Gray Man series - Publishers Weekly

Somehow, Greaney cranks out one winner after another. That's a lot of work for the Gray Man and plenty of pleasure for thriller fans - Kirkus

Author Bio

Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. In his research for the Gray Man novels he travelled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. With Marine Lt Col Rip Rawlings, he wrote the New York Times bestseller Red Metal. He is also the author of Armored and 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 co-authored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority. The Netflix adaptation of The Gray Man, staring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas, was released in July, 2022.