He is known by many names - Courtland Gentry, Sierra Six, The Gray Man, The Violator. Different names, one singular purpose, and in this book that purpose is sharpened to a razor’s edge. From the opening pages, the action never lets up. This story revolves around Gauntlet, a private company contracted by the United States to handle black ops and deniable missions. At the center of it is James Arthur Westwood, a man selling secrets to the Chinese while quietly harvesting intel from inside nearly every three-letter agency. To protect himself, he unleashes hired assassins and sets off a chain reaction that pulls Court into a fight that feels both global and deeply personal.
Things turn brutal when Bulgarian mobsters snap Gentry’s photo, threatening to blow his cover. There is only one solution, and it is absolute. Cleaning house draws the attention of Whetstone through his son, tying revenge directly to Court’s actions. At the same time, Matt Hanley and his Ghost Town team operate in the deepest shadows imaginable. Ghost Town is darker than Gauntlet, more deniable, more dangerous, and when Gauntlet realizes their assassins are being eliminated, they bring the war straight to Ghost Town’s doorstep. Travers, Hightower, Gentry, and the rest suddenly find themselves hunted by another black ops group, and the story becomes a collision of secret worlds that were never meant to touch.
The Hard Line is a little different in how much emotional weight Greaney allows into the story without slowing it down. Court is sometimes fueled by blind rage that is unstoppable and ferocious, but there is also vulnerability I did not expect. Not just from him but from the other operatives as well. Their histories surface, old connections return, and longtime readers will recognize how many threads are finally coming full circle. The dialogue between characters is sharp, revealing, and often electric, easily my favorite part of the book. The technology, the globe-trotting, the relentless pace all hit hard, but it is the humanity beneath the violence that makes this one stand out. This is my favorite book in the series so far, a full throttle story that still manages to dig deep and hit with real force.
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