The Gray Man - Gray Man Novel: Volume 1

Zusatztext “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 Informationen zum Autor Mark Greaney Klappentext THE FIRST GRAY MAN NOVEL FROM #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARK GREANEY-Soon to Be a Netflix Original 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… 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 Rover's blood-soaked driver. Polarized Oakleys shielded his eyes from the brunt of the sun's rays; still, he squinted through his windshield's glare, desperate to identify the burning aircraft that now spun and hurtled towards earth, a smoldering comet's 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 Turkey. The driver found the dying Chinook regrettable but preferable to a dying KA-32T. He watched the chopper spin in its uncontrolled descent, staining the blue sky directly in front of him with burning fuel. He turned the Land Rover hard to the right and accelerated eastward. The blood-soaked driver wanted to get as far away from here as fast as possible. As much as he wished there was something he could do for the Americans on board the Chinook, he knew their fate was out of his hands. And he had his own problems. For five hours he'd raced across the flatlands of western Iraq, fleeing the dirty work he'd left behind, and now he was less than twenty minutes from his exfiltration. A shot-down chopper meant that in minutes this place would be crawling with armed fighters, defiling bodies, shooting assault rifles into the air, and jumping around like fucking morons. It was a party the bloodstained driver would not mind missing, lest he himself become a party favor. The Chinook sank off to his left and disappeared behind a brown ridge in the distance. The driver fixed his eyes on the road ahead. Not my problem , he told himself. He was not trained to search and to rescue, he was not trained to give aid, and he  certainly was not trained to neg...

Product details

• Authors: Mark Greaney
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9780425276389
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27638-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Gray Man; Gray Man
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense