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Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - 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. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
Do you need my help? It was always the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. Raised and trained as part of a top-secret programme, he was sent to the worst places in the world to do things his government denied any knowledge of. Then he broke with the programme and disappeared. But now someone's on his tail. Someone who knows he was once known simply as Orphan X.
When you're the best at what you do, it's not always easy to walk away. Nathan McBride was retired. The trained Marine sniper and covert CIA operative had put the violence of his former life behind him. But not anymore. A deep-cover FBI agent has disappeared along with one ton of powerful Semtex explosive, enough to unleash a disaster of international proportions. The U.S. government has no choice but to coax Nathan out of retirement.
From Amazon number-one best-selling author Mark Dawson, this novella is an introduction to John Milton, the most dangerous assassin in the pay of Her Majesty’s government. Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd, but you wouldn't want to be on his list.
Jack Ryan Jr. is going out on an ordinary audit. Hendley and Associates, the investment firm that acts as cover for The Campus, is looking to invest in a German company. Along for the ride is David Kraft, a back -office employee who will help run numbers but is mostly useful to help carry Jack's bags. But all isn't what it seems. Kraft has a secret past. One that may be very much closer to the surface than it first appears, and one that has put both men in terrible danger.
CIA analyst Jack Ryan, historian and former Marine, is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter. Suddenly, right before his eyes, a terrorist group launches its deadly attack. Instinctively, Jack dives forward to intervene. By his impulsive act, he gains both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men who will not sit on their hate. In an explosive wave of violence, Jack's new enemies will seek to make him pay for his act of salvation...with his life.
Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - 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. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
Do you need my help? It was always the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. Raised and trained as part of a top-secret programme, he was sent to the worst places in the world to do things his government denied any knowledge of. Then he broke with the programme and disappeared. But now someone's on his tail. Someone who knows he was once known simply as Orphan X.
When you're the best at what you do, it's not always easy to walk away. Nathan McBride was retired. The trained Marine sniper and covert CIA operative had put the violence of his former life behind him. But not anymore. A deep-cover FBI agent has disappeared along with one ton of powerful Semtex explosive, enough to unleash a disaster of international proportions. The U.S. government has no choice but to coax Nathan out of retirement.
From Amazon number-one best-selling author Mark Dawson, this novella is an introduction to John Milton, the most dangerous assassin in the pay of Her Majesty’s government. Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd, but you wouldn't want to be on his list.
Jack Ryan Jr. is going out on an ordinary audit. Hendley and Associates, the investment firm that acts as cover for The Campus, is looking to invest in a German company. Along for the ride is David Kraft, a back -office employee who will help run numbers but is mostly useful to help carry Jack's bags. But all isn't what it seems. Kraft has a secret past. One that may be very much closer to the surface than it first appears, and one that has put both men in terrible danger.
CIA analyst Jack Ryan, historian and former Marine, is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter. Suddenly, right before his eyes, a terrorist group launches its deadly attack. Instinctively, Jack dives forward to intervene. By his impulsive act, he gains both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men who will not sit on their hate. In an explosive wave of violence, Jack's new enemies will seek to make him pay for his act of salvation...with his life.
America's Greatest Asset. Robin Monarch, the CIA's top field operative, stumbles across a US governmental conspiracy during a mission in Istanbul. What he sees is enough to make him go rogue. He Is Now Its Greatest Threat. Monarch becomes an international fugitive, hunted by the powers wishing to buy his secret, and by those wanting it buried. Yet Robin Monarch is not perturbed: He has plans of his own. Think Bourne. Think Bond. think Bauer. Think Better.
Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. But when a Paris job goes spectacularly wrong, Victor finds himself running for his life across four continents, accompanied by a woman too beautiful to trust, pursued by enemies too powerful to escape.
Former Marine Force Reconnaissance officer Logan West emerges from a blackout after drinking away the worries of his ruined marriage and PTSD, an all too familiar scene for the recovering alcoholic. But he wakes to more than a killer hangover: A professional mercenary has been sent to capture him. After an embattled showdown, Logan impulsively answers the dead man's ringing phone, triggering a hasty rescue of Logan's estranged wife and a global race against the clock to track down an unknown organization....
John Dempsey's life - as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper - is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice.
Ambushed and drugged, Evan Smoak wakes up in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has captured him. As he tries to piece together what's happened, he receives a desperate call for help. With time running out, he will need to out-manoeuvre a powerful opponent to have any chance of escape. He's got to save himself to protect those whose lives depend on him...or die trying.
Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible hit. Now a police detective, Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try to catch the monster who killed his family.
Marc Dane is an MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step away from the action. But when a brutal attack on his team leaves Marc as the only survivor - and with the shocking knowledge that there are traitors inside MI6 - he's forced into the front line. However, the evidence seems to point towards Marc as the perpetrator of the attack. Accused of betraying his country, he must race against time to clear his name.
When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate Clyde Ritter his life. But what stole his attention? And why was Ritter shot? Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to reopen investigations into the Ritter fiasco and join forces with attractive ex-agent King.
When nuclear waste is stolen by jihadists in the middle of the night from an unguarded New York City hospital, the police, in a frantic race against time, call in the FBI. Luke Stone, head of an elite, secretive department within the FBI, is the only man they can turn to. Luke realizes right away that the terrorists' aim is to create a dirty bomb, that they seek a high-value target, and that they will hit it within 48 hours.
Will Robie is an assassin with a mission. But whose side is he on?
Back in DC after successful missions in Edinburgh and Tangier, assassin Will Robie sees his latest assignment, to eliminate a US government employee, go badly wrong. What had she done? Or what did she know? Robie is now a wanted man. But it seems that he’s not the only one on the run. Young teenager Julie Getty is devastated by the inexplicable murder of her parents. Robie and Julie meet when he saves her from an attempt on her life as they are trying to leave town....
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Killing Floor by Lee Child, read by Jeff Harding. Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular Jack Reacher series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks 14 miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.
In the winter of 1996, on the orders of the British government, the SAS stole the contents of a safe belonging to the Provisional IRA. Rick Fuller headed that team. Days later Fuller's wife was brutally murdered. Convinced he was betrayed from within, Fuller begins a relentless search for her murderers. Ten years on, Fuller is a Manchester gangland enforcer, a lone and bitter figure.
From the number-one New York Times best-selling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels comes an all-new explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man....
Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent. Until the day the agency turned against him and put out a kill-on-sight order. That's when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born - and Court has been working for himself ever since.
Now Court is back in Washington, looking for answers. He's determined to find out what happened all those years ago that made the agency turn against him. On his list to interrogate are his former partners and the men who sent him on his last mission. What he doesn't realize is that the questions that arose from that mission are still reverberating in the US intelligence community, and he's stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. And now they have Court in their crosshairs.
Court Gentry is used to having people on his trail, but this time it's on US soil - the last place he wants to be. Now he'll have to find the answers to his fate while evading capture...and avoiding death.
wondering what violator gets upto in book 6 of the series 😊 enjoyed the previous 5
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Enjoyed it, mostly... My only complaint is I felt it lost pace a few times. Still, a solid, not-overly-gruesome thriller and I look forward to more!
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Fantastic story, great performance. N
Mark Greaney gets better and better and I can't wait for the next book.
Just make sure Jay Snyder narrates it. He's brilliant 😎
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
What a ride! Such fast pace throughout but without impacting on the quality and depth of the story. The best book of the series, connecting all of the dots from the previous books.
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Superbly gripping as ever, but on this outing I couldn't put it down. I listened at every opportunity, be it driving, cooking and chose to listen over other forms of entertainment. Violator is a legend. Lots of surprises in this 5th installment, culminating in a superb climax. I hope Mark Greaney doesn't make us wait too long for the 6th novel. Jay Snyder as always brings life and depth to all the characters.
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If you could sum up Back Blast in three words, what would they be?
Heart Stopping Action
What about Jay Snyder’s performance did you like?
Excellently read
Any additional comments?
Through this book Gentry is tested both physically and mentally, with a flash back to his past
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Fast paced action. I loved the first three books but for me this answered all my questions. Looking forward to the next instalment.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Plenty of action, start at book one and it all falls into place.
I listen to these and Andrew Peterson's Nathan McBride series
An excellent action packed, quick moving novel that had me gripped from the beginning.
The story was brilliantly narrated and the variety of voices were handled with consumate ease. I'm off now to get the next novel.
I read all the books before this got to know the characters it kept me engrossed all through. Greaney is brilliant i hope that make this series into a film
I've loved this series from the first one to the last. No wonder the Clancy people picked this author up.
19 of 20 people found this review helpful
Who was your favorite character and why?
Court Gentry. A most compelling character who works through some personal challenges while being a total bad a@#. All of Mark's books, both Gray Man and Tom Clancy series, include rich character development, complex plots, and obvious deep research on weapons and geography.
What about Jay Snyder’s performance did you like?
Jay Snider must remain the narrator for the Gray Man series, as he has defined and expanded each character within each novel.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Neither. It makes me impressed by the author's storytelling skills and the narrator's range of believable character voices.
Any additional comments?
Mark, keep 'em coming! You are my favorite action series author. My wife and I live near Richmond, VA, so hearing you navigate Court through our neck of the woods was very gratifying.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
Any additional comments?
To begin with Jay Snyder did a fantastic job as always. I won't restate the synopsis since you don't need a review for that. I thought this book was Excellent. I wasn't sure if Mark Greaney would be able to top his last book "Dead Eye" but this one is just as good if not better. I read someone's review on Amazon and was so surprised to see they had written that some of the stunts were unrealistic and out there. Well, the stunts in this book are pretty wild but if you are a fan of this series, think back to the first book when he is given a blood transfusion while driving a car, beats 4 men in hand to hand and goes on to save the day and while laying on the driveway bleeding out he's offered a job! This book has some out there moments but that goes to making it more exciting. As the story goes, there were some touching moments, Court sees his father for the first time in 20 years. They don't get to speak but I can see this developed in future books. Also, Court's background and teen years are filled in some. There were some real surprises also. Lots of twists, deciet and back stabbing. But some friendships are renewed. I think Court ends up on top in this book and Murphy takes a shot at others. The biggest shock is finally learning the truth about why this is a Shoot on Sight order. I was very impressed with this book and can't wait for the next.
Please don't make us wait 3 more years!
Highly Recommended!
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84 of 94 people found this review helpful
The book was well written and the narration was nice. The story just did not keep me engaged like the really good mystery/thrillers I've read have done. I found myself distracted multiple times and would have to back up and re-listen to parts when I had missed what was going on. Really good books do not allow you to lose your focus. I think it's worth a listen but if you are like me, don't expect to be blown away or riveted by the story.
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It has been a while since the last Gray Man book, but this was worth the wait. Just fantastic. Court Gentry doesn't know why the term order was given on him, so he has been running for more than 5 years. He wants answers, he doesn't want to hurt anyone, but the bodies keep piling up. And most of them? He didn't kill them. Who is killing the people he needs to talk to? Who is after him?
We are allowed to know part of the story right from the start, but not all of it. There are crosses, double crosses, and triple crosses! Surprise after surprise, you can't guess it all. And action? If this were a movie, I would have been out of my seat cheering and jumping up and down. This book makes me want to run and leap, and yell.
There are several characters to hug, and some to slap, or as Gentry does, let others kill. It is sad to me that these highly-trained men who often get into this business because of patriotism, then work together as brothers can then turn on and kill each other just because they have orders. I hope that part isn't true.
Gentry finally does get it all sorted out, yet still gets the shaft. but if he retired to a farm in Virginia, there would be no more Sierra 6. I am happy that there will be room for a few more Gray Man books.
Jay Snyder does a wonderful job reading this book. Congratulations to Mark Greaney!
Maybe most of this is unrealistic, but Bruce Willis and James Bond seem to keep us believing, so I am willing to go with the Gray Man. And Court Gentry is a really good guy.
20 of 22 people found this review helpful
Back Blast solidifies Mark Greaney's position is the best writer of espionage thrillers living today! The competition is strong from Brad Thor, Ben Coes, Brad Taylor, Daniel Silva, Brett Battles, Dalton Fury, Nelson DeMille, Tom Wood, Alex Berenson, and others. I first noticed Greaney when he started co-authoring Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series and the quality of Clancy's books improved. The Gray Man/Court Gentry novels and Greaney's continuing to write the Jack Ryan series after Clancy's death have been consistently outstanding. In my opinion Greaney is at the level of Vince Flynn who tragically died in 2013.
In Back Blast Court Gentry after 5 years is tired of running from the the CIA kill order that he does not understand, so he goes to Washington DC to find the reason. The novel unfolds from there. There is constant suspense and action. The audio novel is 18 hours long but as the end approached I found I wanted it to continue.
Jay Snyder narrates. He is one of the best and he does not disappoint.
32 of 36 people found this review helpful
enjoyed resding this author and listening to the audio
action was consistent and never ending
several stories within the main context and kept me reading and guessing
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Would you consider the audio edition of Back Blast to be better than the print version?
Absolutely
What did you like best about this story?
Many insights into Gentry's life
What does Jay Snyder bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Intensity, vividness, brings all the characters to life
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I held my breath many times. It was awesome!
Any additional comments?
Mark Greaney is the number one New York Times Best-selling coauthor of the Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series and he just released book number 5 of his critically acclaimed Gray Man novels.
Let me say this from the start, I’ve listened to all the audio versions of the books written by Mr. Greaney and I enjoyed them all, and my review for the latest Jack Ryan Novel, Tom Clancy Commander-in-Chief, which was released in December, 2015, can be found on my blog.
The Gray Man novels follow Court Gentry, a Black Ops, paramilitary officer that previously worked for the Central Inteligence Agency and now he finds himself hunted all over the world with a Kill on Sight sanction on his head. You should definitely read the first four books in this series, because each and every one of them is very entertaining and that way you can find out more about our hero, but long story short, in Back Blast, Court is back in the United States to get some answers, to clear his name and to dish out some well deserved punishment to those responsible for the manhunt, and you know what the kicker is? It seems that Court Gentry doesn’t have a clue why everybody wants him dead.
Back Blast opens on full throttle, with one of the main characters, Denney Carmichael, the Director of the National Clandestine Service, being whisked away with much heist to the CIA headquarters by his protective detail, on the clear and present danger that the Gray Man is coming for him. Court Gentry a.k.a the Gray Man, codename Violator has just arrived in Washington D.C, after 5 years outside the Continental United States and although he is gunning for Carmichael, at this point he has no weapons or the necessary resources to mount that kind of operation. First he has to find himself a gun and some cash… and from that moment on forward all Hell breaks lose and there’s non stop action the entire 18 and a half hours of the audiobook.
I’m really glad to see author Mark Greaney developing such deep, captivating and interesting characters for the latest Gray Man book. Back Blast answers many questions, delivers on many expectations and puts Gentry in the US, in his country, in the place he loves most and shows a Gray Man stormed by conflicted emotions and disturbing thoughts. Absolutely all the characters are very well written. Gentry is one of the most dangerous man alive, but has some solid moral rules, Denney Carmichael is ruthless in his wish to kill Violator and to rule the CIA and I was impressed to find a very interesting woman reporter by the name of Catherine King for witch I’ve grown a significant appreciation… I wish more journalist were like that…
Back Blast is the best book from Mark Greaney and that’s saying something because all his previous works are great! Filled with over the top action and scenarios, espionage, covert operations, double and triple crosses, moral dilemmas, betrayals and incredible gun fights, all driven by a solid narrative and vivid lifelike characters this is a book all Thriller fans should experience for themselves.
The audiobook version of Back Blast is performed by Jay Snyder, just like all the other books in this awesome series. He is the perfect narrator to give life to Court Gentry. Jay fills the listener with a sense of urgency and keeps him glued to the earbuds for hours at an end. If you choose the audiobook, you will find yourself immersed in Courts adventures, ignoring phone calls, people talking around and with you and forgetting that you still had some work scheduled, at least that was what happened to me in these last 4 days.
Jay Snyder handles accents very well, he gives different voices to the characters and keeps it easy for the listener to differentiate between them. You can feel the intensity of the action and you’ll hold your breath many times during the performance.
Great job, Jay! Thank you for the entertainment!
Forget about Jason Bourne! The Gray Man is here! Trust me when I say that once you start Back Blast, you will not be able to put it down until it ends and after that, you’ll want more books from Mark Greaney. If you like Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Nelson Demille and others like them, you’ll love Back Blast!
I will adapt a quote from the old Tom Clancy books covers because it fits perfectly for Back Blast: This is Greaney at his best and there is none better!
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
If you are a Gray Man fan, this book will not disappoint. Starts fast and never slows down.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
The narrator is good . I like he handled the narration. There was too many killings and it seems unreal, but the story flows quite well . The bomb is who handles who. Even the best can be hoodwinked with lies.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful