The Gray Man

The Gray Man is the debut novel by Mark Greaney, first published in 2009 by Jove Books. It is also the first novel to feature the Gray Man, freelance assassin and former CIA operative Court Gentry. The novel follows Gentry on a mission across Europe to rescue his handler, Sir Donald Fitzroy, and his family in Normandy, France from Lloyd, a member of a massive French corporation and former CIA officer who wants Gentry terminated in order to shepherd a billion dollar deal for oil interests in Nigeria, where its president in turn wants Gentry dead for the assassination of his brother. Lloyd forces Fitzroy to betray Gentry by holding his family hostage in a castle in Normandy.