{"id":15128,"date":"2021-02-26T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15128"},"modified":"2021-02-26T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:01:57","slug":"relentless-by-mark-greaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15128","title":{"rendered":"‘Relentless,’ by Mark Greaney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The tenth novel<\/strong> in Mark Greaney\u2019s exciting Gray Man series is Relentless<\/a><\/em>. The Gray Man, you may recall from previous reviews, is Courtland Gentry, a former CIA assassin who was expelled from the service, operated as a free-lancer for a while, and has now been reinstated, though off the books. In Relentless<\/em>, we find him in a hospital, being treated for wounds and a bone infection. But his boss asks him to interrupt his recovery to do an emergency extraction of a fugitive from Venezuela. That mission goes sideways in a big way. But Gentry learns that Zoya Zakharova, a former Russian agent and the woman he loves, has been assigned to a dangerous assignment in Berlin. He figures he\u2019ll just postpone his treatment a little longer, to watch her back until the operation is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission is a complicated one \u2013 more complicated than most of the participants think. A private security agency called Shrike has been hired by a group \u2013 whom they believe to be Israeli Mossad-backed \u2013 to carry out an operation in Berlin. Only it\u2019s not the Mossad they\u2019re really working for, and the objective is known to only one man \u2013 a terrorist with lots of money and grandiose ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I\u2019ve mentioned in previous posts, I found this book slow reading, and wasn\u2019t sure why. I think the problem was that it was very, very complex \u2013 involving three nested covert operations. Also there were several different groups maneuvering against one another, and I had trouble keeping them straight. I think that kept me from getting emotionally invested until I was fairly well along in the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High stakes, lots of action. I\u2019m not sure my trouble getting involved was the fault of the book. So, recommended, because I like the series as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tenth novel in Mark Greaney\u2019s exciting Gray Man series is Relentless. The Gray Man, you may recall from previous reviews, is Courtland Gentry, a former CIA assassin who was expelled from the service, operated as a free-lancer for a while, and has now been reinstated, though off the books. In Relentless, we find him … Continue reading ‘Relentless,’ by Mark Greaney<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[1762,2343,2881],"class_list":["post-15128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-mark-greaney","tag-relentless","tag-the-gray-man"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15130,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions\/15130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}