Initially, Hansen is hired just to retrieve this asset that Six has stolen by any means necessary," says Gosling. "But it stops being a job and becomes almost uncomfortably personal. Whereas Six gets no sense of satisfaction from his work, it’s very personal for Hansen. Eventually he abandons the pretence of it being a job and becomes obsessed with beating Six." It means I've read a number of books that are self-contained origin stories. Many series that have the same main characters will have them. Stephen Hunter took us to Vietnam for Bob Lee Swagger's origin, for instance. The Hobbit is itself ab origin story for the Lord of the Rings. Comic books - well, they're rife with origin stories, for both heroes and villains.

Greaney deftly jumps between present day and twelve years prior, giving fans of the Gray Man what he went through in joining Golf Sierra and his current op. I do not say this as hyperbole: Sierra Six is the best thing Greaney has written. We see Gentry as never before, and while it isn't an origin story per se, it is the defining moment of who he is today. By now, most readers will have surmised that the mission in both time periods concerns the same bad guy, and it does. From here to the end, I won't be giving away a ton of details of what happens in the book. What I don't think I've ever read, though, is a book that so effortlessly and (more importantly) readably (is this a word?) combines both an origin story and a current story told in an alternating fashion, where both parts, the past and the present, have very real stakes and are both incredibly well done - to the point where either of them, on their own, would be an excellent book, but where together, they are even better than a single book on each would be. Welcome to my Kinktober collection for 2022! Chapters should be added everyday and are of varying length. Not all fandoms have been listed and kinks are subject to change. Trigger warnings will be placed at the beginning of the chapter when necessary. Please, PLEASE NO MINORS. This is not negotiable. I hope you enjoy my work and happy Kinktober! 😈 Language: English Words: 6,712 Chapters: 13/31 Comments: 5 Kudos: 288 Bookmarks: 26 Hits: 24,613Ryan Gosling plays the highly skilled mercenary, CIA operative Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six. As he becomes a target for the CIA, Six finds himself being hunted by his old colleagues, as CIA handler Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) places an enormous bounty on his head and sends a fleet of international assassins to kill him. As usual, we get to see that Court Gentry, The Gray Man, is a very complicated character. In the past, he is not yet as hard as he will become. There are still moments of vulnerability that he shows that just melted my heart. He is not used to working with anybody else yet - and he finds that he likes being a part of a team. We get to see more emotion from him than usual, and of course, I loved every minute of it. Knowing what is going to happen to him - what the team is going to do to him....well, it just makes everything worse and it breaks my heart all over again. This story is exciting, captivating, a little heartbreaking, and the climactic ending is a typical Greaney and Gray Man ending – tension-filled and explosive! I can never get enough. Sierra Six is the protagonist of Mark Greaney’s novel ‘The Gray Man.’ He is an expert assassin who works for the CIA on several covert missions. In the novel’s film adaptation, actor Ryan Gosling essays the role of Sierra Six. In the movie, Sierra Six is recruited by Donald Fitzroy ( Billy Bob Thornton), a high-ranking CIA official who runs the Sierra Program for the agency. Fitzroy believes that Six has the capability to become a useful asset. Six stays true to his mentor’s faith in him by helping rescue Fitzroy’s niece, Claire. Image Credit: Paul Abell/Netflix Mark Greaney: My joke (and it's not really a joke) is that I'm so productive, because I signed contracts that say that I will write these books. There's that moment when you sign the contract, and you're feeling really happy. And then six or nine months later, you're like, 'Oh, my gosh, what have I agreed to do? I'm so deep in the weeds.' And that's always the case.

One day, their father was on the verge of harming Gentry’s brother, so he decided to intervene and shot his father dead. As a result, Gentry was imprisoned for manslaughter and spent most of his adulthood in jail. However, he was offered a reprieve when Fitzroy recruited him to join the Sierra Program. Thus, Court Gentry becomes Sierra Six and leaves his past behind. The Gray Man confirms that Donald Fitzroy, who becomes Sierra Six’s boss, knows his true identity because he was responsible for commuting his sentence. He's the only character to use his real name, in their first meeting. Sierra Six’s real name in The Gray Man books is Courtland “Court” Gentry. To many, he’s known as the Gray Man or the Violator. Within the text, Greaney often refers to Court simply as “Gentry” and occasionally as “Gray” when in the third person. While Court Gentry is still not the name most call him — even in the books, the assassin keeps his identity under wraps — it’s possible a potential The Gray Man sequel will shift to using the title character’s real name more.Gentry was raised in Florida at his father's weapons training school and never served in the military. How he first became a lone-wolf operative is at the core of Greaney's first novel, "The Gray Man," and likely will be revealed in the upcoming movie. Every novel features a disconnect between Gentry and the veterans or active-duty military he's assigned (read: forced) to work with. That conflict keeps the books interesting, and the success of the Gray Man series has continued to grow over the past decade. squidlywiddly87 Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Knives Out (2019), The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019), Defending Jacob (TV 2020), Venom (Marvel Movies), The Gray Man (2022), The Bear (TV 2022), DCU, Justice League (2017)

Mark Greaney keeps up with his research because an operator has to have sea capabilities to go along with land and air skills. (Courtesy Mark Greaney) The best way to do that is for all the satellite reception to be disabled for the next 90 minutes so the team can't see what's going on. Is there a way I could figure out how to do that and technically explain that? Probably, but I want to just say it happened because it's important for the story. So that's what I do."

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I think every time I read a new addition to the series I say this one is my favorite, and Sierra Six I think is one of my favorites – again… I am unashamedly addicted. I just love Court in all of his creative, tortured, bad-ass ways. He's been helped by a young woman operating a drone. She's captured by the bad guy's minions, and now we have the mission in the present: rescue the young woman and kill the terrorist before he's able to do any further evil deeds. Mark Greaney suggests that his ride in a fighter jet will inspire the plot for a future Gray Man novel. (Courtesy Mark Greaney) Sierra Six is an explosive entry in Mark Greaney’s Gray Man saga with a deeper than ever insight into Court Gentry’s psyche and roots. Testament to the outstanding writing found in these books, Mark Greaney brilliantly circumvents the traditional linear narration for an unconventional route this time as the narrative moves forward in two parallel chains of events, one for current timeline, and one for Court Gentry’s first ever mission with the infamous Goon Squad twelve years ago.