Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent. Until the day the Agency betrayed him. On that day, the Gray Man, international assassin, was born. Now, Court is back in Washington. He's determined to find out what happened all those years ago that made the Agency turn against him. On his list are his former partners and the men who sent him on his last mission. What he doesn't realize is that the questions that arose from that mission are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he's stumbled into a secret that some powerful people want kept in the dark...