The Gray Man takes on everyone and everything that stands in his way of rescuing his lover, Zoya Zakharova, in what is arguably Greaney’s best novel to date. Cort Gentry, the Gray Man, hears from his superiors that Zoya died in Russia, but he doesn’t believe the intel. He knows her strength and resolve and…
Joshua Duffy, the hero of Armored, is back, and he can’t stop being a chaos magnet. Everywhere he goes, trouble follows. When his wife, Nikki, gets a diplomatic security assignment in the stable country of Ghana to help coordinate the construction of a dam, Josh joins her, and their two kids come as well so…
Be careful what you wish for. The Gray Man and his lover, Zoya Zakharova, are happily off the grid in Central America. They’ve taken on new identities. They’re no longer in the game. But staying on the permanent down-low may not be possible. Someone(s) or something is killing the world’s top artificial intelligence and robotics…
Hot off the success of the Netflix smash film, The Gray Man, Mark Greaney brings back Court Gentry for his twelfth appearance in this intense series. Gentry is trying to hide from the authorities looking to kill him, but when his former CIA handler Suzanne Brewer reaches out, he can’t say no. Teaming up with…
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In his book Reinventing Comics, Scott McCloud points out that hand-drawn static-image super hero stories can’t compete against first-person power fantasies presented in film, video games, or on television—that action is much more exciting on a screen than in a comic book. If you don’t believe him, check out how many people have seen the…
The Barry Awards, which began in 1997, are presented at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, the award is named in honor of Barry Gardner, a well-known fan reviewer and American critic. This year's awards will be held on September 6, 2018, at the St. Petersburg Bouchercon…
The Barry Awards, which began in 1997, are presented at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Voted on by the readers of Deadly Pleasures, the award is named in honor of Barry Gardner, a well-known fan reviewer and American critic.
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, we get some great cozies, a couple of kickass thrillers, and a ridiculous anthology edited by Lawrence Block and…
