Mark Greaney is a #1 New York Time bestselling author of The Gray Man series, and joins the show to talk his 14th Gray Man novel featuring Court Gentry.In MIDNIGHT BLACK, Court Gentry finds himself on a rescue mission only the Gray Man will go on. With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above zero, and the guards at Penal Colony IK22 are determined to take their misery out on the prisoners—chief among them, one Zoya Zakharova. Once a master spy for Russian foreign intelligence, then the partner and lover of the Gray Man, she has information the Kremlin wants, and they don't care what they have to do to get it.But if they think a thousand miles of frozen wasteland and the combined power of the Russian police state is enough to protect them, they don't know the Gray Man. He's coming, and no one's safe.Bookmarks:0:00 - Intro5:00 - Show Starts8:00 - Book Tour and Self-driving Cars13:20 - Trip to Staccato Headquarters19:11 - Russian Research24:00 - New Ukraine Drone Technology30:00 - New Book MIDNIGHT BLACK and Russian Penal Colonies39:00 - Washington Post Articles and Havannah Syndrome43:00 - Russia and Ukraine War, next Gray Man novel, and more newsLinks to supporting articles:https://www.csce.gov/press-releases/hearing-russias-shadow-war-on-nato/https://www.csce.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Spotlight-on-the-Shadow-War-Website.pdf