Review:
The Gray Man (Court Gentry) was previously CIA until they burned him. He now works for Don Fitzroy, a man who is forced, in this book, to betray him in order to protect his family. Gentry eventually figures this out - he's being hunted because an outgoing Nigerian dictator wants his head in a box for killing his brother, and Fitzroy was a way to get at him because Fitzroy has weaknesses that could be exploited, whereas Gentry supposedly does not.
In an effort to save Fitzroy's family, particularly his twin 8-year-old granddaughters, Gentry drags his exhausted, bleeding, broken body all over Europe (particularly France).
I like talking to my library's student workers about what they're reading. One of our students was raving about this series, so I decided to give it a try.
Although Gentry is portrayed as human enough to be hurt, he's essentially unstoppable - in possession of nine lives, fueled by a strong sense of justice. That said, the beginning of the book was rough. Gentry made some massively stupid decisions for patriotic reasons and mainly survived because he is a ninja/has plot armor.
By the end of the book, he's barely held together with stitches given to him by a veterinary assistant and powered by makeshift speed, and yet he still somehow faces a team of bad guys without completely bleeding out. He works alone, and yet there's always someone there for him to rely on just when he really, really needs it.
The writing was terrible, the action was decent, and Gentry was a character you could root for. Will I continue this series? Probably not, but it was still a reasonably fun read.
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