Sierra Six: The action-packed new Gray Man novel - now a major Netflix film

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Greaney deftly jumps between present day and twelve years prior, giving fans of the Gray Man what he went through in joining Golf Sierra and his current op. I do not say this as hyperbole: Sierra Six is the best thing Greaney has written. We see Gentry as never before, and while it isn't an origin story per se, it is the defining moment of who he is today. I obviously do a lot of research on the military and with people in the military, and the military is featured in every single Gray Man book in one way or another. But I always want my protagonist to be an outsider to the events going on around him. That never has been more true than in 'Sierra Six,' where you actually see him with a paramilitary team trying to integrate and fit in. It’s been years since the Gray Man’s first mission, but the trouble’s just getting started in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Ryan Gosling plays the highly skilled mercenary, CIA operative Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six. As he becomes a target for the CIA, Six finds himself being hunted by his old colleagues, as CIA handler Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) places an enormous bounty on his head and sends a fleet of international assassins to kill him.Sierra Six is the 11th book in Mark Greaney’s The Gray Man Series. As with all of the other books that I have read in the series, I was not disappointed. It had everything that I love. There was action, adventure, guns, fights, more guns, bombs, etc. This book was a wild ride. The best part about this book was that I finally found out more about Courtland Gentry/The Gray Man’s past.

Military.com: The Gray Man has taken a long and winding road to the screen. Now you've finally got a movie coming out this summer. What's that experience been like? Sierra Six is definitely not a story to miss and most assuredly a book you’re going to need to clear a weekend for. Might as well set that date right now! Mark Greaney: My joke (and it's not really a joke) is that I'm so productive, because I signed contracts that say that I will write these books. There's that moment when you sign the contract, and you're feeling really happy. And then six or nine months later, you're like, 'Oh, my gosh, what have I agreed to do? I'm so deep in the weeds.' And that's always the case.

This story is exciting, captivating, a little heartbreaking, and the climactic ending is a typical Greaney and Gray Man ending – tension-filled and explosive! I can never get enough. One day, their father was on the verge of harming Gentry’s brother, so he decided to intervene and shot his father dead. As a result, Gentry was imprisoned for manslaughter and spent most of his adulthood in jail. However, he was offered a reprieve when Fitzroy recruited him to join the Sierra Program. Thus, Court Gentry becomes Sierra Six and leaves his past behind. Bunch of random one-shots based on characters from different shows that don't go into any of my collections. Gentry was raised in Florida at his father's weapons training school and never served in the military. How he first became a lone-wolf operative is at the core of Greaney's first novel, "The Gray Man," and likely will be revealed in the upcoming movie. Every novel features a disconnect between Gentry and the veterans or active-duty military he's assigned (read: forced) to work with. That conflict keeps the books interesting, and the success of the Gray Man series has continued to grow over the past decade. Sierra Six is the protagonist of Mark Greaney’s novel ‘The Gray Man.’ He is an expert assassin who works for the CIA on several covert missions. In the novel’s film adaptation, actor Ryan Gosling essays the role of Sierra Six. In the movie, Sierra Six is recruited by Donald Fitzroy ( Billy Bob Thornton), a high-ranking CIA official who runs the Sierra Program for the agency. Fitzroy believes that Six has the capability to become a useful asset. Six stays true to his mentor’s faith in him by helping rescue Fitzroy’s niece, Claire. Image Credit: Paul Abell/Netflix

Gentry is trained up as just an operations officer, but he came into the agency with the skills that he'd learned through law enforcement and military training at his father's firearm school. He comes into the agency with all this knowledge and got two years of very intensive training before they put him out in the field. This was another amazing installment of one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE series' and one of my all time favorite book characters. When you read as much as I do (over 5000 books) that is not a statement I make lightly.

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Before we go on: if you're a reader jumping in at this point in the series, do yourself a favor and go to book one and begin there. About half of the things in this book will not make a lot of sense, or will appear to have no bearing at all on the other half of the book. Besides, it's a great series and a lot of fun to read.

Every year I have to manage a little bit better. I don't have problems with big ideas for stories, but after 20-something books, sometimes it's hard to come up with a new scenario that you haven't written about before. I struggle with coming up with new fresh stuff. Mark Greaney keeps up with his research because an operator has to have sea capabilities to go along with land and air skills. (Courtesy Mark Greaney) The Gray Man confirms that Donald Fitzroy, who becomes Sierra Six’s boss, knows his true identity because he was responsible for commuting his sentence. He's the only character to use his real name, in their first meeting. Sierra Six’s real name in The Gray Man books is Courtland “Court” Gentry. To many, he’s known as the Gray Man or the Violator. Within the text, Greaney often refers to Court simply as “Gentry” and occasionally as “Gray” when in the third person. While Court Gentry is still not the name most call him — even in the books, the assassin keeps his identity under wraps — it’s possible a potential The Gray Man sequel will shift to using the title character’s real name more. There are no wasted characters. We don't have Joe Smith show up in the story, only to have nothing to say or do that impacts anything. There are no wasted, throwaway scenes or dialogue. The twin stories are compelling, the action (as usual) fantastic, even if having someone jump from a construction crane, during a monsoon, onto a level of an uncompleted office building, or having them pole vault using bamboo taken from a scaffolding are perhaps stretching things a bit. There is an absolutely extraordinary helicopter chase through mountainous terrain that will leave you breathless, and not from the altitude.What I don't think I've ever read, though, is a book that so effortlessly and (more importantly) readably (is this a word?) combines both an origin story and a current story told in an alternating fashion, where both parts, the past and the present, have very real stakes and are both incredibly well done - to the point where either of them, on their own, would be an excellent book, but where together, they are even better than a single book on each would be.