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The Hard Line

by Mark Greaney Publisher: BERKLEY BOOKS

A threat that reaches beyond the mission

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A threat that reaches beyond the mission

Court Gentry’s off-the-books team is drawn into a widening crisis after a safe house in Tunis is compromised, an ambush in Nicaragua nearly catches Court, and members of the U.S. counterintelligence community are killed. With the federal response compromised, the team must confront professional hit squads while Court faces a more personal danger: Whetstone, a retired assassin whose vendetta reaches into Court’s family history. Espionage operations and blood ties converge in a story that places the Gray Man under pressure from both institutional threats and the people closest to him.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of espionage thrillers centered on covert teams and intelligence operations.
  • Readers interested in assassin-versus-assassin conflicts.
  • Those drawn to thrillers where family ties intersect with professional danger.

Themes

Covert operationsCounterintelligenceAssassinationFamily and blood tiesPersonal vendettas

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Book overview

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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