After being branded persona non grata once again following the events of Relentless, Courtland Gentry is operating in the shadows as a hitman with strong moral codes. During a straightforward mission to plant surveillance bugs in the Turkish embassy in Algiers, Gentry gets more than he bargained for when he comes across a man who was supposedly killed twelve years ago. When Gentry takes a shot at his target, his cover is blown and his tech support for this particular mission, an Indian college grad, is captured. Racing against time, he follows the trail to India where he finds out his past isn’t done with him just yet.

He's been helped by a young woman operating a drone. She's captured by the bad guy's minions, and now we have the mission in the present: rescue the young woman and kill the terrorist before he's able to do any further evil deeds. Unlike the last few books, Court has virtually no support. He does connect and team up with a couple of people, but for the most part, this is a solo op for him. I enjoyed the secondary character of Priya. I thought she was portrayed pretty realistically, and I liked her spunk and her willingness to help - regardless of the outcome. The other guy - Ted Appleton - I didn't like. I knew there was something with him from the very beginning. But - no spoilers, so that's all I'll say. There are no wasted characters. We don't have Joe Smith show up in the story, only to have nothing to say or do that impacts anything. There are no wasted, throwaway scenes or dialogue. The twin stories are compelling, the action (as usual) fantastic, even if having someone jump from a construction crane, during a monsoon, onto a level of an uncompleted office building, or having them pole vault using bamboo taken from a scaffolding are perhaps stretching things a bit. There is an absolutely extraordinary helicopter chase through mountainous terrain that will leave you breathless, and not from the altitude. It’s been years since the Gray Man’s first mission, but the trouble’s just getting started in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Despite sharing a close bond with Fitzroy and Claire, the two never refer to Sierra Six by his real name. Instead, they opt for the code name assigned to the man who joined the Sierra Program and became Six in the process. However, as the film’s opening minutes reveal, Sierra Six’s real name is Court Gentry. Given that the Sierra Agents do not have any public records and are practically ghosts in the public eye, it is understandable that Gentry does not go by his real name. Why Was Court Gentry in Prison?Why The Gray Man never calls Sierra Six by his real name. The Gray Man— the action thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas — is Netflix’s most expensive film production to date. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and based on the 2009 novel by Mark Greaney, the film adapts many of the story elements from the source material, but there is one major change regarding the titular character’s name.

Mark Greaney: My joke (and it's not really a joke) is that I'm so productive, because I signed contracts that say that I will write these books. There's that moment when you sign the contract, and you're feeling really happy. And then six or nine months later, you're like, 'Oh, my gosh, what have I agreed to do? I'm so deep in the weeds.' And that's always the case. What I will say is this: I've tons of books. If you're reading this on Goodreads, you can see the numbers, and these are only the things I have read since joining Goodreads plus the things i could remember reading prior to that time. The actual number is likely twice, perhaps twice and a half that. Why do I mention this?

I am, generally, a huge fan of origin stories - assuming they're not of the generic, giant trope-y type. You know those. Those are the ones where the lead had a perfect life before violence came to visit. Let me assure you, writers and readers alike, that there is no perfect life, and the perfect lives upended by sudden violence, with a vow of revenge afterward are, in a word, boring. I want to see the lead struggle with something before struggling with another something. You watched where his finger lingered by the trigger. He didn’t shoot you for the sake of keeping Claire asleep, if subjecting her to more carnage could be avoided. You hadn’t proved yourself an outright threat, either. Not yet. Bunch of random one-shots based on characters from different shows that don't go into any of my collections. Sierra Six is an explosive entry in Mark Greaney’s Gray Man saga with a deeper than ever insight into Court Gentry’s psyche and roots. Testament to the outstanding writing found in these books, Mark Greaney brilliantly circumvents the traditional linear narration for an unconventional route this time as the narrative moves forward in two parallel chains of events, one for current timeline, and one for Court Gentry’s first ever mission with the infamous Goon Squad twelve years ago.

This was another amazing installment of one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE series' and one of my all time favorite book characters. When you read as much as I do (over 5000 books) that is not a statement I make lightly.As usual, we get to see that Court Gentry, The Gray Man, is a very complicated character. In the past, he is not yet as hard as he will become. There are still moments of vulnerability that he shows that just melted my heart. He is not used to working with anybody else yet - and he finds that he likes being a part of a team. We get to see more emotion from him than usual, and of course, I loved every minute of it. Knowing what is going to happen to him - what the team is going to do to him....well, it just makes everything worse and it breaks my heart all over again. Mark Greaney: "They make quite a few changes. They also add things that take place in other Gray Man books, because they're trying to establish this as a franchise to make more movies based on other books. One of the ways to make that work as a story arc for a film franchise is adding some characters in 'The Gray Man' movie who don't come in till book three or book five of the series, but are kind of integral to the story that they're telling you in the movie. Sierra Six is the 11th book in Mark Greaney’s The Gray Man Series. As with all of the other books that I have read in the series, I was not disappointed. It had everything that I love. There was action, adventure, guns, fights, more guns, bombs, etc. This book was a wild ride. The best part about this book was that I finally found out more about Courtland Gentry/The Gray Man’s past. There is, alas, also loss. That loss is often the most compelling - and indeed, most propelling - event for the character. While some may argue that Court's loss in this book is unrealistic and too brief to be meaningful, I'll say that it is sometimes the briefest of connections whose severance wounds us most deeply.