If you had to choose just one word to describe Courtland Gentry, aka The Gray Man, what would it be? Several words that come to mind include lethal, indefatigable, extraordinary, invincible, formidable and crazy. But maybe the best word to describe Gentry is Relentless, the title of the 10th publication in the Gray Man series by the equally relentless Mark Greaney, who continues to churn out top notch thrillers year after year.
Relentless takes the reader around the world, from the US to Venezuela to Germany and the UAE. Gentry is still recovering from wounds sustained on his last mission when he’s forced into action on what appears to be a “simple” mission to gather intelligence from a rogue former-NSA agent. However, as you might expect, things are much more complicated than they seem. Gentry, along with fellow Poison Apple assets Zoya Zakharova and Zack Hightower, must unravel and thwart a dangerous false flag operation that promises to bring chaos and destruction to US concerns in an effort to start a war that would reshape the Middle East’s power structure.
It’s cliché to say that an author’s latest book is their best yet, but if Relentless isn’t Mark Greaney’s best book to date it’s damn close. It has all the usual hallmarks of a Gray Man thriller – fast paced, packed with action from start to finish, impossible odds and dire consequences. It also has realistic, complex geopolitical motivations and implications that show previous allies can always turn into future foes. But what really makes this book awesome is Gentry’s vulnerability. I’m not sure we’ve seen his health this fragile before, which combined with multiple lethal operators coming at him throughout the book makes him quite susceptible to mission failure and possible, seemingly certain, death. However, he’s still the Gray Man. And half a Gray Man, especially with a little help from his friends, is still better than almost anyone else in the world.
This book is good. Really good. Ridiculously good. If I had to choose one word to describe how good Relentless is, it’d have to be something like incredible, marvelous, wonderful, outstanding, awesomesauce or amazeballs. So yeah, you could say I loved this book. In summary, this book is a world class thriller and a must read for all fans of the genre.
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