Dead Eye

October 14, 2013
Courtland “Court” Gentry (aka the Gray Man) faces his most lethal foe yet—Russell “Dead Eye” Whitlock, who has the same training and background as himself—in Greaney’s action-filled fourth thriller featuring the ex-CIA agent turned hired assassin (after 2011’s Ballistic). Court has made a number of powerful enemies, including Russian mafia boss Gregor Sidorenko, whose heavily fortified dacha outside St. Petersburg he attacks in a one-man air raid. The CIA, for reasons that remain unclear, has issued a shoot-on-sight order for Court and put Whitlock on his trail. The final piece of the puzzle is Mossad targeting team leader Ruth Ettinger, who has learned from a reliable source that Iranian agents have hired Court to assassinate the Israeli prime minister. The various moves of each of the skilled and ruthless principals play out against a constantly shifting background of changing goals and allegiances. Fans of superhuman antiheroes will hope the Gray Man survives to fight another day. Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group.