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| name = On Target |
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| caption = First edition |
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| country = United States |
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| language = English |
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| series = The Gray Man |
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| genre = [[Thriller_(genre)|Thriller]] |
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| publisher = [[Berkley Books|Berkley Publishing Group]] |
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| release_date = 2010 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Paperback]]) |
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| pages = 534 p. |
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| isbn = 9780515148459 |
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| isbn_note = (paperback edition) |
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| dewey = 813'6/dc23 |
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| congress = PS3607.R4285063 2014 |
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| preceded_by = [[The Gray Man (novel)|The Gray Man]] |
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| followed_by = [[Ballistic (novel)|Ballistic]] |
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'''''On Target''''' is a 2010 [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] novel by [[Mark Greaney (novelist)|Mark Greaney]], featuring his character The Gray Man. It serves as the sequel to ''The Gray Man'' (2009), with the Gray Man, assassin Court Gentry, facing a difficult task: kidnapping the Sudanese president and bringing him over to the [[International Criminal Court]] (ICC) for the ongoing genocide in [[Darfur]] in [[Sudan]]. The novel depicts the [[War in Darfur]] (2003-). |
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== Plot summary == |
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Months after the events of [[The Gray Man (novel)|The Gray Man]], assassin Court Gentry is brought on a contract by his new boss, Russian crime boss Gregor Sidorenko, to assassinate Dougal Slattery, a former hitman, in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. Gentry succeeds, but not before Slattery reveals that he used to be under the employ of Sidorenko, and surmises that Gentry killing Slattery is tradition for a new hitman making his way into Sidorenko's criminal organization. |
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Disappointed that Sidorenko failed to give him intel regarding Slattery's past association with him, Gentry offers to quit his job. Sidorenko flatly refuses, and instead offers Gentry a difficult mission: to assassinate Bakri Abboud, president of [[Sudan]]. Abboud is arguably responsible for the ongoing genocide in [[Darfur]], a province of the nation, and the assassination is also decided also in order for the Russians to take control of Tract 12A, an oil and mineral sector in the Darfuri desert, from the Chinese. Gentry initially hesitates to accept this operation, considering the heavy security surrounding Abboud. Not wanting him to get out of the contract, Sidorenko offers to give him time to think about the plans ahead. |
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Gentry stays in a hotel vetted by Sidorenko in [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]], and contemplates the ongoing operation. While doing so, his former colleagues in the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) Special Activities Division Paramilitary Operations, the Golf Sierra unit or more known as the Goon Squad and led by his former mentor Zack Highwater, drug and abduct him. It has been known from the first novel that back in 2006, Court was betrayed by his CIA superiors and that he had to kill some of his colleagues in order to escape. Since then, a shoot on sight (SOS) directive has been imposed on him, explaining his work as an assassin for private entities since then. |
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When Gentry is awakened in a yacht not far from the hotel he was staying, he is given a counteroffer to Sidorenko's contract: kidnap President Abboud, and present him to the [[International Criminal Court]] for his war crimes, in exchange for amnesty, specifically for the SOS directive to be erased. He is still to follow Sidorenko's objective, but he has to kidnap Abboud instead of killing him. Gentry eventually accepts the offer, and he is returned to the hotel as if nothing happened. He accepts Sidorenko's offer in turn. |
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For the following days, Gentry prepares for his operation. Finished with preparation, he leaves Saint Petersburg in a Russian transport plane carrying weaponry used for the ongoing [[War in Darfur]], originally for [[Khartoum]], the capital of Sudan. But due to an unexpected change in destination, the plane carrying Gentry is diverted to Darfur, much to Gentry's dismay. He tells Sidorenko and Highwater about what happened, but they urge him to continue on. |
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Upon arriving in Darfur, Gentry faces an interference to his mission; Ellen Walsh, an ICC operative disguised as a stranded United Nations official, wants to board the plane that he was riding on. Since the arms sanctions in Russia regarding the situation in Darfur was still in place, she could jeopardize his operation. He urges airport police to arrest her. |
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[[Category:2010 American novels]] |
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[[Category:Central Intelligence Agency in fiction]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in the 21st century]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in Dublin (city)]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in post-communist Russia]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in Saint Petersburg]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in Sudan]] |
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[[Category:War in Darfur]] |
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