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The Gray Man (novel) his brother. The novel is the first in a series involving the fictional character The Gray Man. A movie adaptation is currently underway, with Christopher McQuarrie attached to direct. 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 English corporation