Okay, so I’m hooked on this writer of violent, not even close to believable, and somewhat silly novels featuring Court Gentry, the Gray Man.  Having been sprung by the CIA from a life sentence for murdering two drug dealers, Gentry is trained in every possible martial art and killing technique by the CIA and then turned loose on various bad guys.

When Gentry goes rogue, the CIA issues a Shoot on Sight order and he is pursued by bad guys from all over the world.  He loses his relationship with his personal handler, Sir David Fitzhugh in book one when the former head of MI-5 lures him to a castle in Normandy when his family is taken hostage by bad guys who want Gentry dead.  Gentry manages to kill half the bad guys on earth in freeing Fitzhugh’s family and that takes us to this silly book #2.

Gentry is re-engaged by his old CIA team with the promise of lifting the SOS order if he kidnaps the president of Sudan and turns him over to the International Criminal Court.  Sounds like a good plan except that Gentry has already been hired by a Russian oligarch to kill the same President of Sudan in order to foment a civil war and gain Russia mineral rights and oil.  During a long day in which two members of Gentry’s CIA Sierra team are killed and Gentry wipes out a good portion of the Sudanese secret police and army, Gentry ends up alive and perhaps in love with an ICC lawyer he has run across in the desert in Sudan.

All quite silly, but the perfect book for the long flights from Marrakesh to Paris and from there to Boston.  I think I’m done with the Gray Man, but I’ve said that before about Reacher and Jo Nesbo and the flesh/brain is weak.  Stay tuned.