MIDNIGHT BLACK: Mark Greaney’s 14th Gray Man Novel Announced

From Gunmetal Gray (2017) to Midnight Black, Mark Greaney is swapping shades for the latest adventure in his #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series, which is scheduled to hit bookstores on February 18th, 2025.

Courtland Gentry, aka the “Gray Man” (also known as Violator and Sierra Six), a former CIA operative who kills fast and disappears in a blur, was first introduced to readers in Greaney’s electrifying 2009 debut novel, The Gray Man. Since then, Court has gone on to star in thirteen novels to date, including this year’s The Chaos Agent, all while becoming one of the biggest names in fiction today, on par with Mitch Rapp, Jack Reacher, and Jason Bourne. In 2022, Gentry was brought to life on the big screen by Ryan Gosling (Barbie, Drive, The Blade Runner 2049)—who starred opposite Chris Evans (Captian America, Knives Out, Avengers: Endgame)—in The Gray Man, a huge blockbuster film that topped the summer charts and became one of the most-watched movies in Netflix history.

Now, Gentry is back for more action in Midnight Black, the 14th book in Greaney’s series, which will see him head to Russia to settle an old score and try to save his partner, former Russian spy Zoya Zakharova.

Release Date: February 18th, 2025

Berkley

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With his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above zero, and the guards at Penal Colony IK22 are determined to take their misery out on the prisoners–chief among them, one Zoya Zakharova. Once a master spy for Russian foreign intelligence, then the partner and lover of the Gray Man, she has information the Kremlin wants, and they don’t care what they have to do to get it.

But if they think a thousand miles of frozen wasteland and the combined power of the Russian police state is enough to protect them, they don’t know the Gray Man. He’s coming, and no one’s safe.

Mark Greaney‘s research for the Gray Man novels, including The Chaos Agent, Burner, Sierra Six, Relentless, One Minute Out, Mission Critical, Agent in Place, Gunmetal Gray, Back Blast, Dead Eye, Ballistic, On Target, and The Gray Man, has taken him to more than thirty-five countries, and he has trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. With Marine Lt. Col. Rip Rawlings, he wrote the New York Times bestseller Red Metal. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority.

Readers excited about Midnight Black can now pre-order Greaney’s next Gray Man novel anywhere books are sold. In the meantime, be sure to grab a copy of Sentinel, the second book in Greaney’s Joshua Duffy series, and the highly-anticipated follow-up to Armored (2022), available in bookstores on June 25th.

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