Gunmetal Gray (Gray Man)

Gunmetal Gray (Gray Man)

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling 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 when his first mission includes a pair of Chinese agents trying to take him down in Hong Kong, Court wants to know why.  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. 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... “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 Praise for Gunmetal Gray “Fans of RPG, Hong Kong action films and high-octane storytelling will love the Gray Man, who battles full-bore through this fast-paced series.”— The Washington Post “Courtland Gentry, also known as the Gray Man, is everything you’d want in a fictional professional killer...[he] always gets the job done for the US of A, and he entertains while doing it...this one is fat, fast, and fun. Clancy's spirit lives on.”— Kirkus Reviews (stared review) “Outstanding...Gray Man fans will close the book happily fulfilled and eagerly awaiting his next adventure.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Back Blast “Mark Greaney reigns as one of the recognized masters of action and adventure. Back Blast is no exception.”— New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Steve Berry “Fast-paced [and] tightly written...A great ride.”— New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond “Punches with bone-busting power…Flesh-and-blood priceless.”— New York Times bestselling author Stephen Templin “Greaney’s unraveling of the Back Blast mystery is masterly, but it’s the Gray Man’s ability to outthink and outgun...that will keep readers glued to the pages.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] high-energy thriller...Clancy fans will have a blast.”— Kirkus Reviews  Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. In his research for the Gray Man novels, including Agent in Place ,  Gunmetal Gray , Back Blast , Dead Eye , Ballistic , On Target , and The Gray Man , he traveled to more than fifteen 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 . Chapter Two Courtland Gentry sat in the front passenger seat of the Mercedes with his backpack on top of his roll-aboard and both pieces stacked on his lap, much to the confusion of his driver. Normally passengers sat in the back and their luggage rode in the trunk, but Court had hurried off the aircraft and into the front of the car to disrupt any potential surveillance at the FBO, and since the driver didn’t know anything about tradecraft, he thought this American to be some kind of a weirdo. Court hadn’t seen the two men on the roof, but he saw them now, or at least he saw the black Aurion varying between six and ten car lengths behind his Mercedes, always there, despite the turnoffs, red lights, and off-and-on gridlocked traffic of a Hong Kong workday. Court had picked up a tail and he hadn’t even been on the ground here in Hong Kong for ten fucking minutes. Terrific. He considered bailing out of the Mercedes somewhere en route to his destination to lose the surveillance detail, but he figured this driver was probably an informant for Chinese intelligence, and the man would just pass on the fact that his passenger had, with no warning, dived from his hired car and dashed up some alley. Nope, that wouldn’t do. Court’s cover for status had to be maintained, which meant Court would just pretend like he didn’t see the black car lurking behind him. He’d been here to HK before, but only once. To the extent he had a regular beat, East Asia certainly wasn’t it, so he did his best to push the tail car out of his mind and instead spend his time doing all he could to observe the fabric of life on the streets around him. He noted what the police cars looked like, where the street signs were located, the flow of traffic, and the manner of dress of