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. Military.com: What's always been fascinating about Court Gentry to me is that he's almost an anti-military character. He's never served in the military, and he irritates all the veterans he works with on the ops teams. How did you conceive of an ace special ops warrior with zero military experience? The best way to do that is for all the satellite reception to be disabled for the next 90 minutes so the team can't see what's going on. Is there a way I could figure out how to do that and technically explain that? Probably, but I want to just say it happened because it's important for the story. So that's what I do." It only takes a single tragedy to tear your life to shreds and make it to where you're unable to sleep through the night. You tell yourself that you will never trust a bodyguard again, but things don't go according to plan when a man with a number for a name is assigned to the Fitzroy household while your uncle is away. Language: English Words: 12,637 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 4 Kudos: 22 Bookmarks: 5 Hits: 146 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.

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. Greaney deftly jumps between present day and twelve years prior, giving fans of the Gray Man what he went through in joining Golf Sierra and his current op. I do not say this as hyperbole: Sierra Six is the best thing Greaney has written. We see Gentry as never before, and while it isn't an origin story per se, it is the defining moment of who he is today.By now, most readers will have surmised that the mission in both time periods concerns the same bad guy, and it does. From here to the end, I won't be giving away a ton of details of what happens in the book. Sierra Six, Mark Greaney's newest Gray Man novel, is set between present day and twelve years earlier when Courtland Gentry joined a CIA special activities team. Gentry, aka The Gray Man aka Violator aka Sierra Six, is on a run-of-the-mill singleton operation when he sees a ghost. Literally. Twelve years earlier, as Golf Sierra's newest member, they eliminated a terrorist leader who was the worst of the worst. And that terrorist has just shown up during a supposedly simple op. And the crap is about to hit the fan. This story is exciting, captivating, a little heartbreaking, and the climactic ending is a typical Greaney and Gray Man ending – tension-filled and explosive! I can never get enough. I worry now because there's a film coming out made from one of my books, and I've got two novels coming out this year. Now I have a family and all this other stuff, but I've still committed to write the same number of words that I wrote when I lived alone and had no other distraction. Sierra Six is the protagonist of Mark Greaney’s novel ‘The Gray Man.’ He is an expert assassin who works for the CIA on several covert missions. In the novel’s film adaptation, actor Ryan Gosling essays the role of Sierra Six. In the movie, Sierra Six is recruited by Donald Fitzroy ( Billy Bob Thornton), a high-ranking CIA official who runs the Sierra Program for the agency. Fitzroy believes that Six has the capability to become a useful asset. Six stays true to his mentor’s faith in him by helping rescue Fitzroy’s niece, Claire. Image Credit: Paul Abell/Netflix

A decade of time hasn’t changed the Gray Man. He isn’t one to leave a job unfinished or a blood debt unpaid.I am going to be really sad when this series comes to an end. It has been a roller coaster ride that has provided so much entertainment value. At least, there is also a movie coming out that will finally give me the chance to see how Mark envisioned the character to be in real life. Hopefully, there are also more books to come. 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. Chris Evans is ready for action in The Gray Man. (Image credit: Netflix) The Gray Man cast— Ryan Gosling on playing CIA operative Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six