Agent in Place (Gray Man)

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Fans of RPG, Hong Kong action films, and high-octane storytelling will love the Gray Man, who battles full-bore through this fast-paced series.”— The Washington Post As the interview was wrapping up, I asked Mark for a movie update, and his fans will be thrilled to know that things are looking good. As for Court himself, I liked him. He is a genuine guy with ‘a heart of gold’….a fact which we are reminded a little too much about throughout the novel. He was easy to like and his intentions were honorable but again, I didn’t like being told that on a regular basis.While completely snowed in Friday afternoon, thanks to ‘Snowmageddon 2018’, I was able to reach New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney by telephone from my home office here in southwest Michigan. The book had a working title of Weaponized, and was originally centered on Court Gentry trying to stop the transport of sarin gas into Syria. But Greaney said: “That was already going on, and I just felt like by the time this book comes out, the Syrian government gassing their people was going to have been going on for years. Once I changed that, ‘Weaponized’ no longer meant anything to the story.” The title Agent in Place was suggested by his editor Tom Colgan, who thought fit the story, since the term refers to an operative who has penetrated into an intelligence target, which is Gentry’s role in the novel. An Agent in Place is set almost entirely in Moscow in the mid-1980s. Glasnost is afoot, but the CIA spymasters don't want the Cold War to end and put them out of work, so they set in motion a scheme designed to take down Gorbachev. The scheme involves a few US Embassy officials and a Russian family: the poet Zenaida, her "soon-to-be-ex-husband" Vadim, and her elderly father and 11-year-old son. However a group of "magicians" feel they can handle or neutralize the threat to their livelihoods with some sleight of hand - to make the audience see what they want to see and make it come crashing down. The action takes place in mainly three areas - the American Embassy where the main character Ben has a mysterious job, the KGB (and a hawkish True Believer sect within), and a Russian/American couple caught between the two. We got along really well, but it was super intimidating at first. Very early in my career, when I was first offered the job — not even offered me the job, they just asked me if I was interested — I was just terrified of it. I was honestly trying to figure out how I could get out of it because I thought it was just too much,” he recalled, before adding, “but I also knew that it was the best possible thing that could happen to me — I just needed to man up and deal with it.”

agent:agent place There is a reason the Gray Man is a highly sought after contract professional killer. He is a brilliant, top notch operative that is simply a fabulously developed character. Never a dull moment, you will always be guessing about what he will do next. The next day, Court and Abdul, as well as other prisoners, were brought to a lake to be executed one by one by their captors. When it became his turn to be executed, Court manages to break free and then kills his executioners, while Abdul and the other prisoners disable their guards. Court and Abdul were then rescued by the Special Forces unit, who tell them that Azzam had died from his gunshot wound. In fact, never mind that last statement. There is not enough time to think about what he will be doing. You just have to read as fast as possible. This book is huge so make sure to plan your reading!

It is always ambitious to place your story in the midst of constantly changing current events and that gamble pays off handsomely here, taking the reader on a journey into the very belly of the Syrian Civil War with all of the different factions and players including mercenaries, the Free Syrian Army, Isis, the Russians, and others too numerous to mention without glancing at the scorecard. Maybe Court takes on an impossible mission - but the writing makes it believable and the battle scenes in Syria are real good. I’m hoping they go through with it, and the director they got is somebody who can make any movie he wants to make by snapping his fingers and saying he wants to make it. So, I think it’s sitting pretty.” Thank you to Net Galley, The publishers and to Mark Greaney for an honest review, which is easy as I love these books.

Desperate to earn her cooperation, the Halabys try to retask Gentry with another job: spirit away Medina's infant son from Syria in what is considered a suicide mission, which Court initially refuses. He later rescues the Halabys from being tortured for Medina's whereabouts by two French police officers sent by Swiss bank consultant & Shakira's right-hand man Sebastian Drexler. Court then agrees to rescue Medina's son as well as his babysitter, named Yasmin, from Damascus after she allows him to do so. I told my editor after my sixth book that it might be time for me to hang it up,” confessed Greaney. “The truth is that I was afraid I was going to run out of things to do. In his second outing as a now un-disavowed asset for the CIA, Court Gentry, "the Gray Man," becomes involved in a plot to aid Syrian expatriates trying to topple their dangerous dictator. He helps kidnap the dictator's mistress when she is in France and get her to the rebels, but discovers she will help no one unless she is reunited with her infant son. The baby has been kept secret by both the mistress and the dictator (who, by the way, is not named Bashar al-Assad), but without him she will not cooperate, no matter what the people holding her try to do.I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.”- Bashir Al – Assad. As for the moment when he knew for sure that he was really going to walk away from the Clancy stuff to focus on his own series and projects, Greaney said he informed his editor over lunch. Plus,” he added, “the marketing people at the publishing house weighed in and said they liked the fact that Gunmetal Gray, or titles with multiple words on the cover, gives you more print size on each word. They asked me if I could come up with a longer title, which happened right at the point where I was thinking to myself that ‘Weaponized’ sounds like a cool name, but has nothing to do with the book.” Next, we have Sebastian Drexler. Drexler is probably my favourite character in the book, as he is a modern take on the 1980s Eurotrash bad guy. Of all the people in this story, he could be considered the true Levanter of “Agent In Place”, even more so than the actual Levanter that Gentry is hunting down. A Swiss Spy, born in the French side of the small, but influential nation, Drexler decided to relive the best traditions of his people. He became a mercenary, a boutique gun for hire amongst Europe’s more snobbish Corporate tycoons and later the not so snobbish dictators of the Third World. Forced into exile in Syria, Drexler starts the story with his career and life on the line. With Gentry ruining one of his plans, Drexler realizes that his current client is going to kill him if there is one more failure and so begins to make his exit plans, on the corpses of several innocent civilians and a baby boy if need be.

I was actually at a writers’ conference and I went to lunch with Tom Colgan. He asked me about the next book, and I was sort of like, ‘Hey, remember when I told you last year I was going to do one more and be done? I meant it,” Greaney said, again laughing as he recalled the moment. “It was the right time for me to step away and Marc Cameron did great, so I think everybody ended up winning in the end.”Characters? Quite a few standouts this time around but for brevity’s sake, I shall focus on four. First, Courtland Gentry. Gentry in this story has an interesting character arc of sorts, one that is self-serving but noble in a strange way. After book 7 where he got rudely reacquainted with the dubious nature of the work he had once done as a government employee, in this story we start with him trying to find a job that will boot his spirits and reaffirm his idealism, a morally righteous mission that will be achieved for his own damn satisfaction, rather than that of his new handler in Langley whom he grew to hate after their first run together. He gets more than he bargained for, finding himself agreeing to an ultimate high-risk proposition which would kill any ordinary soldier or intelligence officer after a week. After convincing Court to work with them one last time, mostly to help Bianca because he sympathizes with her and the situation she’s in, Gentry heads to Syria for the most dangerous assignment in his storied career.