Mark lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his two Catahoula Leopard dogs, Lobo and Ziggy. Intelligence agencies, and trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. In his research for the Gray Man and Jack Ryan novels he has traveled to dozens of countries, visited the Pentagon, military bases, and many Washington, D.C. Mark has a degree in International Relations and Political Science. A feature film adaptation of THE GRAY MAN is in development at Sony Pictures. Mark’s books are published in several languages and are also available as audiobooks. On July 16th, 2019, Red Metal will be the released a military thriller written by Mark Greaney and Lt Col Hunter R. He collaborated with Tom Clancy on three Jack Ryan novels before Tom’s death in 2013. Mark is also the #1 New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of seven Tom Clancy novels, including his most recent TOM CLANCY TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE. Six subsequent Gray Man novels have been released to date, including AGENT IN PLACE (2018), and MISSION CRITICAL. I hope Greaney manages to incorporate this political/military strategic level as it would vastly improve the whole story.Mark Greaney’s debut international thriller, THE GRAY MAN, was published in 2009 and became a national bestseller and a highly sought-after Hollywood property. The plot provides a clear cut way towards a second book.
RSR excels on that aspect, which makes the book in its entirety more complete and comprehensible. The destruction of laser nav aids had no impact on the story? What happened to the 3rd armored train? Is the Taiwanese issue just a setup for book 2? In short, I missed the moving of chess pieces on the map by higher echelons and the problems that brings for those on the ground. This is fine, but would also be better if the no doubt ferocious effort to bolster European defences would be included. The combat phase is all about grunts doing combat. The first part of the book, prior to the combat phase, really takes too large strides through time to allow a listener to build a good picture of what the problems at hand are. Sadly, this didn't turn out to be the case. At one point I thought maybe he omitted the parts where I expected a connecting chapter intentionally to simulate the comms issues in the plot. The story is not too bad conceptually but Greaney fails to connect the different miniplots to one coherent flowing story.
The plot (rare earth metals, Russia backed in a corner, slacking Western attention to military affairs) all checks out.
I enjoyed the Grey Man series so I had high hopes. Spoiler alert! The search for another read like Red Storm Rising led me to this title.
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