Zoya one last time, Court goes off grid. Characters Courtland "Court" Gentry: (aka The Gray Man; code name Violator) CIA contract agent and former CIA employee, former member of Special Activities Division (Ground Branch) and the Autonomous Asset Program Matthew Hanley: Deputy Director of Operations, CIA Suzanne Brewer: Senior Officer, Plans and Programs, CIA Zoya Feodorovna Zakharova: Former SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence) officer Dirk Visser: Luxembourg-based banker Won Jang-Mi: (aka Janice Won) North Korean virologist and intelligence asset Vladimir Belyakov: Russian oligarch Charlie Jones: Nottingham-based crime boss Anthony Kent: Nottingham-based criminal Alexi Filotov: Russian GRU (Military Intelligence) officer Zach Hightower: CIA contract agent, former CIA Special Activities Division (Ground Branch) team leader Walt Jenner: CIA Special Activities Division (Ground Branch) team leader Chris Travers: CIA Special Activities Division (Ground Branch) officer Lucas Renfro: Deputy Director of Support, CIA Maria Palumbo: Senior Executive, Operations, CIA Marty Wheeler: Assistant Deputy Director of Support, CIA Alf Karlsson: Executive, Operations, CIA David Mars: London-based businessman Feodor Zakharov: Former director of the GRU (Russian military intelligence), father of Zoya Zakharova Artyom Primakov: (aka Roger Fox) Russian mafia vor Jon Hines: Bodyguard to Roger Fox Sir Donald Fitzroy: London-based security consultant (retired) Development About the book's tendency to mirror current news, Greaney states, “Mission Critical is a story that definitely takes a lot of things that are going on with the world — North Korea, Russia, U.S. intelligence circles, leaks, all that sort of stuff. But it’s not, you know, ‘ripped from the headlines.’ It’s more like this is the real world going on around us, and what can I create from that that makes it an interesting story?” Reception Commercial Mission Critical debuted at number five at the Combined Print and E-Book Fiction category of the New York Times bestseller list for the week of March 10, 2019, making it Greaney's third top 10 novel in the Gray Man series after the previous two books, as well as the highest charting as of June 2019. It was also at number seven on the Hardcover Fiction category of the same list. Additionally, it debuted at number eight at the USA Today bestseller list for the week of February 28, 2019. Critical The book received positive reviews. Kirkus Reviews praised it as "good, Clancy-esque entertainment", adding: "May the evildoers of the world have nightmares that Violator becomes a real person." Publishers Weekly stated: "Greaney knows what military