The Gray Man
by Mark Greaney · first published 2012
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…audible.com list for a friend. These are all in the thriller/action genre. I can put one of these on for 10 hours while driving to our CT place and not even notice the trip. Jack Reacher series by Lee Child Gray Man series by Mark Greaney Orphan X (Evan Smoak) series by Gregg Hurwitz Gibson Vaughn series by Matthew FitzSimmons “The Eiger Sanction” by Trevanian Jonathan Ransom series by Christopher Reich Simon…
on “Ask HN: Favorite audio book for long drives?” ↗…Jack Ryan books after he passed or had other writers weren’t that good. How far can you go after the main character becomes President? I did stumble onto one of those authors, Mark Greaney, who wrote The Gray Man series of novels (the netflix movie is not a good representation at all). Spy/action thrillers, main character is CIA “ground branch” type, not a chess match kind of spy.
on “John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel” ↗And The Gray Man (by Mark Greaney) was awful, just a series of events seemingly conceived to demonstrate that the protagonist was indeed a badass, over and over. After awhile, the protagonist became Steven Seagal in…
on “I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist” ↗