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Praise for Mark Greaney and the Gray Man novels

ON TARGET

Court is endearing in his perseverance even as his schemes are undermined by sympathetic victims, misleading information, outright lies, poor planning, betrayal, conflicting agendas, and simple bad luck... An action-filled yet touching story of a man whose reason has long ago been subsumed by his work ethic.

Publishers Weekly

Fine characterization, witty dialogue, breathtaking chase and battle scenes, and as many unforeseen twists and turns as your favorite Robert Ludlum or Vince Flynn novelcombined. Moreover, author Mark Greaney supplies verisimilitude as well as anyone in the writing business, along with singular attention to detail that doesnt merely bring the exotic locales to life: You will feel the bullets whizzing past.

Keith Thomson, bestselling author of Twice a Spy

Greaney writes smart, sharp, perfectly-paced thrillers. Intense, intelligent, and loads of fun. Pick one up and you wont want to put it down until the last page.

Steven James, bestselling author of The Bishop

Discovering The Gray Man was like falling in love for the first time. Reading On Target is like going on a second date and realizing this relationship might last for the long haul.

Eric Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of

Valley of Bones and One Step Away

THE GRAY MAN

Theres probably a cheetah on the Serengeti who can get a gazelle moving faster than Mark Greaney gets The Gray Man into overdrive... Greaney keeps this vengeance story red-lined and blistering as a hired killer known as the Gray Man burns like det cord through a small army of trained killers in Prague, Zurich, Paris, and beyond as he zeroes in on the wealthy French aristocrat who betrayed him... Writing as smooth as stainless steel and a hero as mean as razor wire... The Gray Man glitters like a blade in an alley.

David Stone, New York Times bestselling author of

The Skorpion Directive

Hard, fast, and unflinchingexactly what a thriller should be.

Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Affair

A high-octane thriller that doesnt pause for more than a second for all of its 464 pages... Greaney has a good understanding of weapons and tactics... and he uses that to enliven his storytelling, including lots of the kinds of details that action junkies love... For readers looking for a thriller where the action comes fast and furious, this is the ticket.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here is a debut novel like a well-honed dagger: sharp, merciless, and deadly. Mark Greaneys The Gray Man is Bourne for the new millennium... Never has an assassin been rendered so real yet so deadly. Strikes with the impact of a bullet to the chest... A debut not to be missed.

James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of

The Devil Colony

Take fictional spy Jason Bourne, pump him up with Red Bull and meth, shake vigorouslyand youve got the recipe for Court Gentry, hero of The Gray Man... Gentrys such a souped-up, efficient killing machine, Bournes a piker by comparison... Greaneys writing is crisp.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal

From the opening pages, the bullets fly and the bodies pile up. Through the carnage, Gentry remains an intriguing protagonist with his own moral code. The villains motives are fuzzy, though he is quite nasty. Comparisons will be made to Jason Bourne, but the Gray Man is his own character. The ending screams for a sequel, but it will be difficult to maintain the intensity level of this impressive debut.

Booklist

[A] fast-paced, fun debut thriller... With unbelievable powers of survival, the Gray Man eludes teams of killers and deadly traps, while the reader begins to cheer for this unlikely hero. Cinematic battles and escapes fill out the simplistic but satisfying plot, and Greaney deftly provides small details to show Gentrys human side, offset by the petty rivalries and greed of his enemies.

Publishers Weekly

TITLES BY MARK GREANEY

The Gray Man
On Target
Ballistic

For the men and women
on both sides of the border
who work every day to end the madness

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Karen Mayer, James Rollins, Marcie Silva, Marleni Gonzalez, Devin Greaney, Mireya Ledezma, Svetlana Ganea, James Yeager, Jay Gibson, Paul Gomez, Tactical Response, GetofftheX.com, Mystery Mike Bursaw, CovertoCoverBookstore.com, Devon Gilliland, Bob Hetherington, Patrick ODaniel, the Andersons, the Leslies, Alex Slater at Trident, Caitlin Mulrooney-Lyski and Amanda Ng at Penguin, and Jon Cassir and Matthew Snyder at Creative Artists Agency.

Special thanks to my agent, Scott Miller at Trident Media, and my editor, Tom Colgan at Penguin.

MarkGreaneyBooks.com

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

In Mexico, if you have a problem and turn to the police, then you have two problems.

LORENZO MEYER, MEXICAN HISTORIAN

PROLOGUE

The manhunter knelt at the front of the canoe, scanned the far bank as it appeared around the rivers bend. Thick green rain forest morphed slowly into a rustic brown village, a settlement of hardpacked dirt and wood and corrugated rust built along the waters edge.

This is it? he called back to the Indian steering with the outboard motor. Only by necessity had his Portuguese improved in the past months.

Sim, senhor. This is it.

The manhunter nodded, reached for the radio tucked between his knees.

But he stayed himself. He needed to be certain.

Seven months. Seven months since the call came for him in Amsterdam. A rushed consultation with his employer, a flight across the Atlantic to Caracas, a mad dash to Lima, and then south.

Ever south. Until he and his prey came to the end of the world, and then the chase wound back to the north.

Ever north.

Hed been on the targets heels, to one degree or another, for all this time. The longest hunt of his storied career.

And it would end here. One way or another, the hunt for Courtland Gentry would end right here.

ONE

Outside Quito, the manhunter had come close. Hed even called in a kill team, but theyd gone wanting for a target. Foolish of him, a false start could dull their fervor the next time; he would not cry wolf again. Hed caught fresh wind of the target in northern Chile and a hint of him farther down the Pacific coast, but then hed lost the scent in Punta Arenas.

Until Rio and a lucky break. A visiting jujitsu student from Denmark had seen an Interpol Wanted poster while in his embassy filing for a lost passport. Hed run into another white student at a dojo in the favelas. Nothing to that, but the Dane knew his art, and the white mans fighting style showed hints of other disciplines: hard, brutal, warrior tendencies that he tried to hide from those around him. The Dane recalled the Wanted poster. It was no obvious match, but he felt compelled to contact the authorities. Something about the man in the dojo had uneased him. A look, an edge, the hint of suspicion on the part of the white student, as if he knew that the Dane was sizing him up for some reason.

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