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The Hard Line

A Gray Man Novel

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The Hard Line

Written by: Mark Greaney
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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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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This installment makes up for 'Midnight Black' which was so MEH it was painful to the point I couldn't complete it!
I enjoyed Midnight Black until the Grey Man became Superman and took on the entire Russian security apparatus to rescue his love interest, Zoya from a gulag (credulity stretching story line).

I have been a fan since 2009 when the Grey Man hit the genre with a BIG BANG!
Sierra 6 is one of my favourite instalments as I have listened to that one three times.
'The Hard Line' brings the series WELL AND TRULY back on track ...

FYI Jay Snyder can't do a South African accent to save his life ... so perhaps stick with Northern Irish characters or pay Jay more money and get him some elocution lessons where he can practice international and regional accents like Zoya ...

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