On Target (Gray Man Series #2)

by Mark Greaney

Overview

Killing is his business. But his business is about to get personal.

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…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425276396
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/02/2014
Series:	Gray Man Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	28,448
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

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 fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. He is the author of Dead Eye, Ballistic, and The Gray Man.

Hometown:

Memphis, Tennessee

Date of Birth:

1967

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for the Gray Man novels

“Bourne for the new millennium.” —James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Eye of God

“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

“The story is so propulsive, the murders so explosive, that flipping the pages feels like playing the ultimate video game.”—The New York Times

“Hard, fast, and unflinching.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Go Back

Editorial Reviews

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 clichés becomes an action-filled yet touching story of a man whose reason has long ago been subsumed by his work ethic. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

“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 On Target
 
“Fine characterization, witty dialogue, breathtaking chase and battle scenes, and as many unforeseen twists and turns as your favorite Robert Ludlum or Vince Flynn novel—combined.”—New York Times bestselling author Keith Thomson
 
“Greaney writes smart, sharp, perfectly-paced thrillers. Intense, intelligent and loads of fun.”—National bestselling author Steven James
  
“Discovering The Gray Man was like falling in love for the first time. Reading On Target is like going on a second date and realizing this relationship might last the long haul.”—New York Times bestselling author Eric Wilson

More Praise for the Gray Man Novels
 
“Writing as smooth as stainless steel and a hero as mean as razor wire.”—New York Times bestselling author David Stone
 
“The story is so propulsive, the murders so explosive, that flipping the pages feels like playing the ultimate video game.”—The New York Times

“A high-octane thriller that doesn’t pause for more than a second for all of its 464 pages.”—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

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