Unlike the last few books, Court has virtually no support. He does connect and team up with a couple of people, but for the most part, this is a solo op for him. I enjoyed the secondary character of Priya. I thought she was portrayed pretty realistically, and I liked her spunk and her willingness to help - regardless of the outcome. The other guy - Ted Appleton - I didn't like. I knew there was something with him from the very beginning. But - no spoilers, so that's all I'll say. 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. Mark Greaney: "They make quite a few changes. They also add things that take place in other Gray Man books, because they're trying to establish this as a franchise to make more movies based on other books. One of the ways to make that work as a story arc for a film franchise is adding some characters in 'The Gray Man' movie who don't come in till book three or book five of the series, but are kind of integral to the story that they're telling you in the movie. 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.

Chris Evans is ready for action in The Gray Man. (Image credit: Netflix) The Gray Man cast— Ryan Gosling on playing CIA operative Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six But it did get close a few times over the years. And I really haven't been that involved, other than watching it bounce around like a basketball between Hollywood studios. Sony had it a few and the Russo Brothers, who are the directors of a lot of the Marvel movies like 'Avengers: Endgame' and 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier,' wanted to direct it and to write the script. They had me come out to California and spend some time with them. And then Joe Russo wrote the screenplay, which was fantastic. And then the movie kind of died on the vine at Sony. I am, generally, a huge fan of origin stories - assuming they're not of the generic, giant trope-y type. You know those. Those are the ones where the lead had a perfect life before violence came to visit. Let me assure you, writers and readers alike, that there is no perfect life, and the perfect lives upended by sudden violence, with a vow of revenge afterward are, in a word, boring. I want to see the lead struggle with something before struggling with another something.The best way to do that is for all the satellite reception to be disabled for the next 90 minutes so the team can't see what's going on. Is there a way I could figure out how to do that and technically explain that? Probably, but I want to just say it happened because it's important for the story. So that's what I do."

Sierra Six is an explosive entry in Mark Greaney’s Gray Man saga with a deeper than ever insight into Court Gentry’s psyche and roots. Testament to the outstanding writing found in these books, Mark Greaney brilliantly circumvents the traditional linear narration for an unconventional route this time as the narrative moves forward in two parallel chains of events, one for current timeline, and one for Court Gentry’s first ever mission with the infamous Goon Squad twelve years ago. By now, most readers will have surmised that the mission in both time periods concerns the same bad guy, and it does. From here to the end, I won't be giving away a ton of details of what happens in the book.

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. Are you here to kill me, because if you know anything about me, you know they’re not paying you enough to do this.” He scrutinized your expression, and you didn’t think there was anything on your face that he could decipher from it, nothing that you didn’t want him to see. “Something about you tells me that it won’t make a difference.” I worry now because there's a film coming out made from one of my books, and I've got two novels coming out this year. Now I have a family and all this other stuff, but I've still committed to write the same number of words that I wrote when I lived alone and had no other distraction. I think every time I read a new addition to the series I say this one is my favorite, and Sierra Six I think is one of my favorites – again… I am unashamedly addicted. I just love Court in all of his creative, tortured, bad-ass ways. It’s the first time in his life that Six has had any kind of power," says Gosling. ‘He was powerless as a child to a very domineering father, he was powerless to the prison system, and then powerless to the CIA. So, even though the stakes are heightened, his story is very relatable because all he wants is to have some kind of control over his own life."

He's been helped by a young woman operating a drone. She's captured by the bad guy's minions, and now we have the mission in the present: rescue the young woman and kill the terrorist before he's able to do any further evil deeds. Despite sharing a close bond with Fitzroy and Claire, the two never refer to Sierra Six by his real name. Instead, they opt for the code name assigned to the man who joined the Sierra Program and became Six in the process. However, as the film’s opening minutes reveal, Sierra Six’s real name is Court Gentry. Given that the Sierra Agents do not have any public records and are practically ghosts in the public eye, it is understandable that Gentry does not go by his real name. Why Was Court Gentry in Prison? Why The Gray Man never calls Sierra Six by his real name. The Gray Man— the action thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas — is Netflix’s most expensive film production to date. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and based on the 2009 novel by Mark Greaney, the film adapts many of the story elements from the source material, but there is one major change regarding the titular character’s name. You watched where his finger lingered by the trigger. He didn’t shoot you for the sake of keeping Claire asleep, if subjecting her to more carnage could be avoided. You hadn’t proved yourself an outright threat, either. Not yet. just a cute one-shot in which our dry humored socially stunted blond is married to another (trans) guy, did this for the readers who’re trans men/mascs. enjoy! Language: English Words: 1,471 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 4 Kudos: 21 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 256There is, alas, also loss. That loss is often the most compelling - and indeed, most propelling - event for the character. While some may argue that Court's loss in this book is unrealistic and too brief to be meaningful, I'll say that it is sometimes the briefest of connections whose severance wounds us most deeply. 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.

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. A decade of time hasn’t changed the Gray Man. He isn’t one to leave a job unfinished or a blood debt unpaid. 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. Sierra Six, Mark Greaney's newest Gray Man novel, is set between present day and twelve years earlier when Courtland Gentry joined a CIA special activities team. Gentry, aka The Gray Man aka Violator aka Sierra Six, is on a run-of-the-mill singleton operation when he sees a ghost. Literally. Twelve years earlier, as Golf Sierra's newest member, they eliminated a terrorist leader who was the worst of the worst. And that terrorist has just shown up during a supposedly simple op. And the crap is about to hit the fan. As usual, we get to see that Court Gentry, The Gray Man, is a very complicated character. In the past, he is not yet as hard as he will become. There are still moments of vulnerability that he shows that just melted my heart. He is not used to working with anybody else yet - and he finds that he likes being a part of a team. We get to see more emotion from him than usual, and of course, I loved every minute of it. Knowing what is going to happen to him - what the team is going to do to him....well, it just makes everything worse and it breaks my heart all over again.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. 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.