The Gray Man (novel)

The Gray Man is the debut novel by Mark Greaney, first published in 2009 by Jove Books. It is also the first novel to feature the Gray Man, freelance assassin and former CIA operative Court Gentry.

The novel follows Gentry on a mission across Europe to rescue his handler, Sir Donald Fitzroy, and his family in Normandy, France from Lloyd, a member of a massive French corporation and who wants Gentry dead in order to shepherd a million-dollar deal for oil interests in Nigeria, whose president also wants Gentry dead for the assassination of his brother.

The novel is the first in a series involving the fictional character The Gray Man. A movie adaptation is currently underway, with the script to be written by the Russo brothers, the team behind the Captain America series.