January 1, 2025
The word is out. There's an American in the Balkans "creating a lot of noise and mayhem." You bet he is. He's Court Gentry, a freelance assassin known as the Gray Man and given the lead again in the fourteenth novel in Greaney's popular series, following Chaos Agent (2024). Someone has captured and imprisoned his lover, Zoya, the sassy, vodka-swilling Russian spy who defected to the West and got imprisoned for it. The core of the novel details Gentry's efforts to find and free her. We rejoin Gentry in a scene that reads like a parody of an old western movie moment: five gunslingers take him on in quick-draw, and he mows 'em all down. Things come alive when Zoya is introduced. Her jousting with the power-mad twerp who controls her life in the Russian hellhole prison is on a different level. Does the journey end in the lovers' reunion? That's for Greaney to tell in the last chapter, where he reveals the true reason for Zoya's arrest and gives action fans what they want.
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