The Gray Man
To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible and then fading away. And he always hits his target. Always.But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. Forces like money. And power. And there are men who hold these as the only currency worth fighting for. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. But Court Gentry is going to prove that, for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive...
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- Just assembled this audible.com list for a friend. These are all in the thriller/action genre. I can put one of these on for 10 hours while driving to our CT place and not even notice the trip.
Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
Gray Man series by Mark Greaney
Orphan X (Evan Smoak) series by Gregg Hurwitz
Gibson Vaughn series by Matthew FitzSimmons
“The Eiger Sanction” by Trevanian
Jonathan Ransom series by Christopher Reich
Simon Riske series by Christopher Reich
Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
Any other by Christopher Reich
Tim Rackley series by Gregg Hurwitz
Any other Gregg Hurwitz books like “The Tower” (pretty brutal), “Tell No Lies”, “The Survivor”
“Armored” by Mark Greaney — the book (17-hour version), not the shortened pre-version
Anything else by Greaney, including the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan series
The Dewey Andreas series by Ben Coes
Peter Ash series by Nick Petrie
Case Lee series by Vince Milan
Nick Lawrence series by Brian Shea
“Darkness Falls” by Kyle Mills
Delta Force Novels by Dalton Fury
“City of Windows” by Robert Pobi
Anything by Michael Connelly (the author of the Harry Bosch series)
- And The Gray Man (by Mark Greaney) was awful, just a series of events seemingly conceived to demonstrate that the protagonist was indeed a badass, over and over. After awhile, the protagonist became Steven Seagal in my mind's eye. Had to quit before I finished.
- Tom Clancy was my favorite author, I think authors sign contracts that let some entity use their name and it turns into a brand. The Jack Ryan books after he passed or had other writers weren’t that good. How far can you go after the main character becomes President? I did stumble onto one of those authors, Mark Greaney, who wrote The Gray Man series of novels (the netflix movie is not a good representation at all). Spy/action thrillers, main character is CIA “ground branch” type, not a chess match kind of spy.
