Gunmetal Gray

De: Mark Greaney

Narrado por: Jay Snyder

Mark Greaney, the New York Times best-selling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world's deadliest assassin - the Gray Man.

After five years on the run, Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong. Normally the Chinese prefer to stay eyes-only on foreign agents. So why are they on such high alert? Court's high stakes hunt for answers takes him across Southeast Asia and leads to his old friend, Donald Fitzroy, who is being held hostage by the Chinese. Fitzroy was contracted to find Fan Jiang, a former member of an ultra-secret computer warfare unit responsible for testing China's own security systems. And it seems Fan may have been too good at his job - because China wants him dead. The first two kill teams Fitzroy sent to find Fan have disappeared, and the Chinese have decided to "supervise" the next operation. What they don't know is that Gentry's mission is to find Fan first and get whatever intel he has to the US. After that, all he has to do is get out alive.

©2017 Mark Greaney (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Another thrilling adventure

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. Non-stop action, great performance!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

From Asia with Love

Any additional comments?

Mark Greaney is the #1 New York Times Best-selling co-author of more than six books in the Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series and this month he released the 6th thrilling novel in his own, original, Gray Man series. If you’ve followed my blog posts over this last year you may know that I’m a big fan of Mark‘s and that I always devour his works with abandon.

In Gunmetal Gray, Court Gentry aka The Gray Man is back with his old employer at the Central Inteligence Agency and the action takes place right after the events of the last year’s fantastic Back Blast. Court is sent into Hong Kong in a solo mission with orders to kidnap a Chinese hacker and to rescue an old friend, but when he is recognized at the airport by Chinese operators in the intelligence Bureau all his plans are out the window and The Gray Man is on his own.

Without me giving anything of the plot away, I will say that although Gunmetal Gray is not quite as intense as its predecessor, Back Blast, the story is great, the action is non-stop and the Gray Man is deadlier than ever… The are guns, explosions, hand to hand combat, gadgets, boats, spies, special operators of all kinds, hackers, women whom at the same time are beautiful and deadly. There is betrayal, blackmail, murder and a lot of intelligence agencies are battleling one another, fighting to get their hands on the hacker before Court does. I loved the breakneck speed with witch events develop, I enjoyed the race from country to country, the Gray Man‘s resourcefulness to conquer any situation, the cat and mouse games and the timid love story developing between… well, I’ll let you find that out on your own.

This Gray Man audiobook is brought to life once again with talent and passion by the great actor and voice over artist Jay Snyder. His voice reminds me of Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series of video games, he can read, act, prelongue the tension and infuse action scenes with urgency. He even sounds good performing all the words in different asiatic languages. For Gunmetal Gray he uses lots of accents and voices, from gruff Russian for pissed off operatives, to scared Chinese henchmen, dialing it down to calm and even feminine cadences. He is perfect for this series and it’s obvious that he enjoys the role.

I said it lots of times and I’ll say it again Mark Greaney is one of the best thriller / espionage writers of the moment, Gunmetal Gray is intense, unputdownable and thrilling from beginning to end. I saw Mark evolve with every book and and I can’t wait for the next one in this great series! If you enjoy works by authors like Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn you’ll love what Mark delivers with the Gray Man series.

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great story

This is a great story line. I greatly enjoyed this audio book on a very long road trip. It kept me entertained the entire trip. I highly recommended this book for you to read.

Good dose of Grey Man, a little slow at times.

This one didn't capture me until the last third. It took a long time to get going and seemed to me to have parts that would benefit from the ability to scan back a few chapters and review some character development.

Best Gray Man yet...

The tension never lets up. Like an onion, the motives of the principles are slowly peeled away.

Best Grayman book yet

As always, a little over the top with his skills, luck and recovery after injury. But overall it keeps you interested and involved all the through.

First time reader of this author

Story was believable and interesting. He kept us in the maze for a while and his hurdles of faith were made with a smoothness of a duck's butt.

not the best in the series but still a good read

the story moved along very well. The ending and twist regarding some of the new characters involved left a little to be desired in my opinion. Not as hard and fast hitting as earlier books in the series.

Best one yet

Would you listen to Gunmetal Gray again? Why?

Yes. I liked all the books in this series so far, but this one is my favorite.

What other book might you compare Gunmetal Gray to and why?

Similar to Orphan X. The same type of killer with a conscience.

What does Jay Snyder bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He was execllent. On par with Scott Brick and Dick Hill.

Any additional comments?

The author seems to divide his time between this series and Jack Ryan series. I would like see more time spent of theses books. But I'm probably the minority here.

Excellent

Great story as should be expected and I truly hope that the next story has the Banshee in it with the Grey Man, now that would be fun to listen to!!!
Anyone that reads the Grey Man series knows that every book is a good read and this one is certainly no exception.

Took some time

I enjoyed this latest book though it certainly wasn't my favorite. It took a little bit for the action to get going but made up for it eventually. In addition, adding the love interest for Court played well to develop the character in the series. I hope Mark Greaney will re-visit this later. The door is definitely open. I really hope Suzanne Brewer would just go away though. She was the most annoying part of the book.