The Hard Line

A Gray Man Novel

By: Mark Greaney

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

The Gray Man, the world’s deadliest assassin and apex predator, discovers he’s really the prey in the most shocking entry of this #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Family means different things to different people, but in the Gray Man’s world, family is defined by blood—the blood you share with some and the blood you shed with others.

Court Gentry’s current family operates out of an office park in Norfolk, Virginia. The Ghost Town is an off-the-books direct action team run by Matt Hanley, former CIA Deputy Director. They take on the jobs the Agency needs handled “discretely,” and those jobs are rolling in.

Somewhere at the top of the US Intelligence apparatus, security experts and intelligence operations worldwide are threatened.

It starts with a blown safe house in Tunis. Then Court himself barely escapes from an ambush in the jungles of Nicaragua. Now key members of the U.S. counterintelligence community are being assassinated in their own neighborhoods. With the feds compromised, it’s up to Court and his team to stop the hit squads.

But eliminating professional kill teams may be the least of the Gray Man’s worries when he finds himself targeted by the legendary assassin codenamed Whetstone—a man driven out of retirement by a very personal quest to rain down hellfire on Court and everyone he’s ever loved, starting with the father he hasn’t seen in twenty years.

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Mark never disapoints!

As always, this man can tell a story! I now have to wait a whole year to see how this all goes!

Each successive book becomes the best one yet.

How previous installments had to lead to this. After listening, it seemed like this story was being staged in multiple books before it.

Great and greater

Gets better and better as you go, then when you think it’s peaked, it gets so much better.

I could never have imagined a book could be this good.

No words to describe this book. I’ve listened to all of the Gray man series and they were all great. Prior to this book my favorite was Backblast or Sierra six and now, this is my new favorite. Mark Greaney continues to raise the bar.

Fantastic

Maybe the best Gray Man book yet. Mark Greaney is a great storyteller. Waiting for the next one!