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  • By: Mark Greaney
  • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
  • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,054 ratings)
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Summary

From Mark Greaney, The New York Times best-selling author of Gunmetal Gray and a coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man.

Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. 

When they land in an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the prisoner. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers, but what can one operative do against a trained team of assassins? A lot, when that operative is the Gray Man. 

Cover design by Steve Meditz

©2019 Mark Greaney (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

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Not without issues unfortunately

A decent enough Gray Man storyline, but utterly ruined by the appalling narration of Jay Snyder. Considering just how much of this is set in the UK I find it incredible that someone so completely inept at pulling off anything remotely recognisable as an English accent, nevermind multiple English accents, was used as narrator (even differing US accents seemed an issue for Snyder). At times it was hard to make sense of who was talking as all non-American characters had the same awful accent. Thankfully Scottish characters were scarce, but those that were heard sounded like a mix of cockney Irish. Add to that Snyder's constant mispronunciation of towns and cities in the UK and the end result was a disaster. In addition to these narration issues there were some poor errors by the author about things/places in the UK and about the British armed forces. They could have been forgiven but for Snyder's appalling narration. Previous Gray Man books only had Fitz's accent for him to mess up so it wasn't a big issue. Maybe the publishing company don't care about their UK listeners?

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Good Book... Dodgy accents

Good Book, as expected. But the narrator needs to work on his accents. Dodgy English accents.

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Great story but the accents!!!

This is a really good Grey Man story; a character I love by the way. However, the lack of understanding of British accents was evident in the writing and the performance. No one from nottingham would be able to distinguish a hampshire accent from a london one or a berkshire one. Why Scottish cabbies had faux cockney accents was unexplained and the Scots dragoon guards had the weirdest accents i've heard for a long time. None of this would probably matter to anyone from outside the Uk but it really hampered my enjoyment of the book.

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Great read, didn't disappoint!

I loved this book, it was great getting to know more of the characters and there was actually some really funny laugh out loud moments due to Gentry's dry sense of humour. the only downside of the book was the English accent the narrator used! it was somewhat questionable but I still enjoyed it.

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  • 18-04-19

Great story

Another Great story only let down by the dreadful accents and pronunciation by the narrator

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Not the best in the series

It was OK, it was a Grey man novel and I enjoy them but the worst thing for me was the appalling accents and mispronounciation of place names. Everyone sounded like an imitation of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, despite not all being from southern England. Both East and West Midlands have different accents and the Scottish accent was a joke. In a book that talks about spys being highly trained in their diction and inflections it is a shame that no one thought to talk to a Brit about some details.
It was so distracting that I was waiting for the next horror rather than enjoying the yarn. Lets hope the next may be based in America. It will probably read better than listened to.

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  • 21-09-19

Good Gray Man story..

Another great Gray Man story. Really enjoying the series, and this is another superb instalment.
Gentry finds himself caught up in a race to stop a Russian general, who was thought deceased, from launching a revenge attack against the west.
Great to see major characters - Court, Hightower and Zoya all working together on this one. The story, as with all from this series, is very engaging.
Some 'questionable' accents and dodgy pronunciation of Scottish place names, but it doesn't detract from the story. I like Jay Snyder as a narrator he's been great so far this series.
Highly recommended Mission Critical, but you'd definitely enjoy it more if you're up to date with the series beforehand.

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poorest of the gray man books.

I think this series will end here for me. very flat narration, accents and pronunciation were poor.

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Great series!

This has become a favourite. I enjoy the characters and the pace of the stories. This one is non-stop. The Grey Man actually meets his match, amazingly, and suffers accordingly! Zoya takes a central role in this story, which gives more of her back story. Just waiting for the next one now...

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Another superb Grey man novel

Fast paced action from beginning to end! I even did the washing up to find a reason to continue listening :)

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