"Gentry had spent sixteen years in covert operations, studied faces, and evaluated threats for a living. He knew what an operator looked like when the fight was over, and he knew what an operator looked like when the fight was about to begin."
Court Gentry was introduced into the CIA by Fitzroy after he discovered he was very smart. According to the narrator, Court Gentry was a vital asset of the CIA because he never missed targets in his operations. Gentry carried out the most difficult CIA operations, and he delivered according to given timelines without fail. However, things changed when the CIA director discovered that Court Gentry was a threat to the organization because he knew all the secrets of the entity. Consequently, the CIA's director ordered his mercenary called Hansen to kill Court Hansen, but it would not be an easy task.
“Court Gentry was a killer of men. These were men. And that’s all there was to it.”
Court Gentry kills to survive, and there is no other profession he knows better than eliminating his targets. Gentry moves from profession to profession, and his primary task is to track down the most feared criminals on the list of the CIA and eliminate them on sight. However, when he breaks ranks with the CIA, Gentry becomes the number one target of the CIA. Carmichael wants Court Gentry dead, but that is an impossible task because some of the agents of the CIA, like Cahill and Fitzroy, are working closely with Gentry to ensure his safety.
"His back to the wall sat a young American soldier. His eyes were open and blinking rapidly. Cradled in his arms was a second infidel. This man was black and appeared either unconscious or dead."
The terrorists smuggle Al Jazeera journalists from the Syrian border to spread the propaganda of Al Qaida's winning the war in Northern Iraq. An injured soldier in the back of the truck is Abyssi, and he is about to die. His pictures are taken and shared with the world to show how Al Qaida is causing havoc, especially by slaying the American soldiers.
