From #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney comes AGENT IN PLACE (Berkley Hardcover; February 20, 2018) the latest explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man.
Already named “one of the top must-read thrillers of 2018” by Ryan Steck of The Real Book Spy, AGENT IN PLACE is the seventh in the New York Times bestselling Gray Man series, which has been drawing rave reviews since the first book in the series was published. When Mark first started writing the series, the legendary Tom Clancy began looking for a co-writer. And he found a kindred spirit in Mark Greaney. Greaney collaborated on three books with the legendary author before Clancy’s death in 2013. Greaney kept the stories of Jack Ryan and The Campus alive with full support of the Clancy estate, while simultaneously writing the Gray Man series, featuring Courtland “Court” Gentry. Mark has now passed the baton of the Clancy novels to a new author and is now writing Gray Man exclusively.
In the course of his research for both the Gray Man and Jack Ryan novels, Mark has traveled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combat tactics to give his books realistic, you-are-there details. Mark keeps his finger on the pulse of military and geopolitical activities and in a 2014 interview with The Huffington Post posited that the U.S.’s greatest security threat was Russia’s Vladimir Putin—an opinion that proved to be quite prescient. Mark has taken that expertise and brought it to all of his novels, including AGENT IN PLACE.
Court Gentry was the CIA’s best covert asset. Then, without warning, his overseers at the agency put him at the top of their kill list. Court fled the country and became an enigmatic killer for hire known as the Gray Man.
For his latest adventure, he's working on behalf of a well-connected group of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress so they can use her to bring down the president's regime. But the expats' plan goes awry when it's discovered the mistress has a baby—the Syrian president's only male heir—hidden away in a Damascus safe house. Court goes after the baby, a decision that comes at the price of the mistress's life. The expat organization deems the boy now useless to their cause and refuses to protect him against the Syrian first lady and the notorious Swiss assassin in her employ. With no support on the way, Court realizes he'll have to take down the Syrian president himself if he and the boy are going to make it out alive.
With the Gray Man series Mark Greaney has created a contemporary to Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, and Jack Reacher. Court Gentry is dynamically flawed—almost a superhero—but not invincible. Coupled with Greaney’s genius foresight into international political intrigue, it’s no wonder he’s the heir to the legacy of not just Tom Clancy, but also the heir apparent to writers like Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Robert Ludlum, and Lee Child.