Sierra Six
By Mark Greaney
Release Date: February 15, 2022
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3 Stars - The Gray Man returns in spectacular fashion as always. This series always manages to stay fresh. Court's in India this time with a new set of clients to help, and he stumbles upon an enemy from his past. So we get some fascinating flashbacks to his early days working under Zach and Matt as Sierra Six. This one might have actually made two more exciting short novels or novellas, but fans of this action series will still find plenty to get excited about.
Greaney has somehow managed to use the sam format and style successfully with the Gray Man for years, but he changes up just enough to avoid a rut for most readers. His characters always have plenty of personality that keeps things fun throughout all the shootouts and action. However, this is not his best showcase for character development in my opinion. Court is at his best when he's being himself of course. And he was finally starting to have some kind of relationship with Matt, Zach, and Zoya in Relentless. That made Relentless way superior on the entertainment side. Here once again he goes back to working with and rescuing strangers which is just okay.
I think part of my problem with the set up is that we know not to care about anyone in this book much. Sure, it's kinda fun to see Court at the mercy of Zach. But we already know how all that works out. And he is still already the Gray Man. We sort of did all this in Back Blast already. I didn't like the tech girls either. Both of them felt thrown in for the sake of appealing to everyday female readers. Frankly, I liked some of call girls, models, and outright spies in previous books more because they felt more real. I liked both sides of the story, past and present. And there was a good flow of flashbacks to updates that harkened back to the Clancy Command Authority days. But there was a lot of info and a lot of characters to take in in between action sequences. While I was so excited for this one's release, I found myself able to put it down for awhile and pick it back. This series has been full of peaks and valleys and surprises though. So no doubt I'll be back to the next one. And this probably would not be a bad starting place for a new reader to Gray Man, maybe even better.
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