Constructive criticism? There was a major editing error. Drexler in the story is given a gun. Officially a Beretta 92 Inox, it in fact has the specs of the Taurus PT 92, specifically the latter’s 17 round magazine which the original 92 models did not possess. I wrote a book before The Gray Man, called Goon Squad. I actually submitted that to an agent, who read it and told me that I should re-write the whole book. He said there was a character I could use, this Court Gentry guy. . . because in Goon Squad, there was this plot about all these hitmen from old jobs who are chasing the Gray Man down while he’s trying to do this operation that the book was about. New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney I hear from readers all the time who think that’s my best book,” he said, “and I think that’s because it’s the one that has the most personal story for the hero. It’s sort of all about him finding these answers, his identity, and all that stuff. It’s all so personal, and it’s a lesson for aspiring writers. The more important you can make the stakes to the hero, not just life and death, but more important than life and death, the more your book will resonate with people.” I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.”- Bashir Al – Assad. Desperate to earn her cooperation, the Halabys try to retask Gentry with another job: spirit away Medina's infant son from Syria in what is considered a suicide mission, which Court initially refuses. He later rescues the Halabys from being tortured for Medina's whereabouts by two French police officers sent by Swiss bank consultant & Shakira's right-hand man Sebastian Drexler. Court then agrees to rescue Medina's son as well as his babysitter, named Yasmin, from Damascus after she allows him to do so.

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the book, especially his treatment of the Syrian Civil War. He animated this conflict including how mercenary groups are coordinated and deployed.Mark Greaney is on my list of favourite authors and most of these are action thriller authors, as well as gripping police thriller authors. So Sony owns the rights to the story now, not the optioning, and they have a — I don’t think I’m allowed to say who — but a very well-known director who is circling the project. I’ve had conference calls with him and talked to his director of development a couple of times. I’m currently waiting to hear what they’ll do next. There is definitely a lot of energy within the studio to make the film because they bought it out from under me.”

Again, it’s just something that I thought was cool,” admitted Mark. “It’s actually the name of a Depeche Mode album. I’m not a big Depeche Mode fan or whatever, but I remember seeing that album and thinking, around the same time that I was trying to come up with a callsign for Court, that I had to give it to him.” In his second outing as a now un-disavowed asset for the CIA, Court Gentry, "the Gray Man," becomes involved in a plot to aid Syrian expatriates trying to topple their dangerous dictator. He helps kidnap the dictator's mistress when she is in France and get her to the rebels, but discovers she will help no one unless she is reunited with her infant son. The baby has been kept secret by both the mistress and the dictator (who, by the way, is not named Bashar al-Assad), but without him she will not cooperate, no matter what the people holding her try to do. We got along really well, but it was super intimidating at first. Very early in my career, when I was first offered the job — not even offered me the job, they just asked me if I was interested — I was just terrified of it. I was honestly trying to figure out how I could get out of it because I thought it was just too much,” he recalled, before adding, “but I also knew that it was the best possible thing that could happen to me — I just needed to man up and deal with it.” The plan is to have Court kidnap Bianca, a clear power-move by the Syrian expats (who call themselves the Free Syrian Army) designed to destabilize Ahmed al-Azzam’s government. After scouting his target, Court makes his move in the dark of the night, only to encounter a large number of ISIS militants who also converge on Bianca’s apartment, guns a-blazin’. I was actually at a writers’ conference and I went to lunch with Tom Colgan. He asked me about the next book, and I was sort of like, ‘Hey, remember when I told you last year I was going to do one more and be done? I meant it,” Greaney said, again laughing as he recalled the moment. “It was the right time for me to step away and Marc Cameron did great, so I think everybody ended up winning in the end.”

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Survival. That is the whole reason for being when it comes down to it. Survival does have its darker side however, making one capable of doing monstrous and horrifying things out of petty, sheer opportunism. Such is the lot of the Levanter in Damascus whose opportunism has kept him alive and has allowed him to triumph in the Syrian Civil War but has also caused the biggest refugee crisis since the WW2 displacement of millions of Europeans. But in Agent in Place however, sometimes opportunism is not enough. Sometimes, honouring one’s commitments even in the face of massive odds like Courtland Gentry does is how one can truly survive and live to die another day. One thing about Gentry is his Moral Code that he will not deviate from if at all possible. When I read the plot summary I couldn't figure out why he would put his life on the line to rescue this woman's four month old baby. But then he finds out the infant will be killed if he doesn't get him out. OK, I understand now! Gentry could never let an innocent baby be murdered. So off he goes sneaking into Syria with all his stealth and cunning. The only question is how battered will he be by the time he get out...