{"id":6684,"date":"2022-10-14T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/?p=6684\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T10:20:18","slug":"gray-man-mark-greaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/en\/2022\/10\/14\/gray-man-mark-greaney\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE GRAY MAN&#8221; by Mark Greaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Gray-Man.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Gray-Man-191x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Gray-Man-191x300.jpeg 191w, https:\/\/www.exlibrismeis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/The-Gray-Man.jpeg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>After I saw the movie, I bought the book. And I liked the book as well as the movie!!! <br \/>\nWhat surprised me the most when I read the book was not the plot, which was almost entirely different from the movie, but the meticulous writing for all the fights. After I read his book, I understood that Mark Greaney <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;traveled to more than fifteen countries and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close range competitive tactics.&#8221;<\/span> And his degree was in <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;international relations and political science.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\nThat was, for me, brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Now Gentry stood between two living assassins, both armed, each less than ten feet from him.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Behind Court was the armed man on the ground. Surely by now he was rolling around to get a shot off.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>And in from of Court was the standing man, now shoving his blood-spewing partner out of his way to resight his weapon on his target.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Court flicked his knife so that he was holding the blade and quickly threw it overhand at the standing gunman. The blade struck perfectly, buried itself in the man&#8217;s left eye socket. Blood erupted, and the operator dropped his gun to bring both hands to the knife. He fell to his knees.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Gentry did not look to the threat behind him. Instead, he dove forward, both arms outstretched, desperate to get his hands on a firearm. Just before he hit the ground, another gunshot cracked through the passage. He did not feel an impact, assumed the operator behind had aimed at his back but missed due to his leap to the ground.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Court slammed into the cold tile floor, slid forward, and lifted the third gunman&#8217;s pistol. The man with the knife in his eye was on his knees now, dying but not yet dead, screaming bloody murder.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><strong style=\"color: #008000; font-style: italic;\">Gentry rolled onto his back next to him and turned to fire back at the last enemy still in the fight. This man had a half chance to shoot but hesitated; Court was alongside his partner.<\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The Gray Man, however, did not hesitate. 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