Mark Greaney has been very busy. He has a new Gray Man thriller, SIERRA SIX, coming out in February, 2022. I’ve read it and it’s a thrill-a-minute ride, just what I have come to expect from him. No one writes better action scenes than Mark Greaney. I’ve read all 11 of this series and enjoyed the heck out of them. Now we have to get him a Barry Award. He’s been nominated several times and has come close.
Then in July, 2022 his ARMORED is being published. It is the start of a new series.
Here is the plot:
Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent—a professional bodyguard—and he’s one of the world’s elite operatives. That is, he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg.
There’s not much call for an elite bodyguard with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in New Jersey. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory on earth, but miracles can occur even in Paramus.
A lucky run-in with an old comrade promises to get Josh back in the field for one last job. The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico, an area so dangerous it’s known as Espinazo del Diablo—the Devil’s Spine. Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region, and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive.
On other thriller news, we have a first novel coming out from Ryan Steck, who operates the go-to website for fans of thriller fiction – The Real Book Spy. I have wondered and worried about Ryan over the last year or so since he contracted Covid. The site has only had sporadic and infrequent updates (whereas in the past they were almost daily). I was worried that he might be a Covid long-hauler, but now I suspect he was hunkered down writing his first thriller, which comes out in August of 2022 from Tyndale House Publishers. It is entitled FIELDS OF FIRE.
Here is the plot:
Waiting to be deployed on a critical mission, elite Marine Raider Matthew Redd stops to help a stranger and wakes up hours later to learn his team was wiped out in an ambush. Unable to remember anything, Redd can’t deny the possibility that he’s somehow responsible for the information leak that led to the massacre. He’s given a deal to avoid a charge of treason, but it means walking away from the Corps and the life he loved.
As he faces his loss, Redd gets a cryptic message from his adoptive father, J. B.: “Trouble’s come knocking. . . . Might need your help.” He points his truck home to rural Montana, only to discover that J. B. is dead and the explanation for his death is far from satisfying. Determined to dig up the truth, Redd uncovers a dark global conspiracy with his hometown at the center and no team at his back – except one he might find among past friends, old enemies, and new allies, if he can figure out who to trust.
Back to George: I look forward to reading these two books with great anticipation. Stay tuned for reviews in Deadly Pleasures.