Orphan X
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4.2 • 269 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
THE FIRST INSTALMENT IN THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING EXPLOSIVE THRILLER SERIES
'Outstanding in every way' LEE CHILD
'The page turner of the season' THE TIMES
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TRAINED TO KILL, NOW HE HELPS THOSE IN TROUBLE
Evan Smoak was an orphan raised in a secret government programme.
When he lost faith in it, he got out and now uses his training to help the desperate and deserving who've nowhere left to run - if you can find him.
But no one can escape their past for ever. Someone is on Evan's trail.
Someone with the same skills and training.
And who knows the weaknesses of the boy who became Orphan X . . .
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'A Masterpiece of suspense and thrills' Daily Mail
'Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense' Harlan Coben
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Hurwitz (Don't Look Back) melds nonstop action and high-tech gadgetry with an acute character study in this excellent series opener. Evan Smoak, who was trained to be an assassin under the government's secret Orphan Program, is now a rogue operator known as the Nowhere Man with a mission to help those in need. As payment, each of his clients refers him to another innocent person in trouble. But Evan becomes the hunted when he tries to help Katrin White, whose father will be killed unless she pays gambling debts. A sense of authenticity permeates the story, no matter how outlandish the tech toys or over-the-top the action. Evan is an electrifying character who chooses daily to do good. Run-ins with his L.A. condo board add a bit of levity while a growing relationship with neighbor Mia Hall and her eight-year-old son, Peter, reinforce that a normal life is just out of Evan's reach. Movie rights were sold to Warner Bros. 100,000 first printing.
Customer Reviews
A good read
This was my first foray into this series and author in general after several years of seeing this author pop up in my ‘you might like’ list. I was initially sceptical - but I really enjoyed it and found myself looking forward to reading a few more chapters at the end of the day. As the first in the series it gave me enough to understand the character, but I’m looking forward to more back story in the next few books to pull things together. Just when I thought I’d worked out the twist (there’s always a twist with these types of characters - even in the Jack Reacher series!) I was pleasantly surprised (no spoilers!). I enjoyed it enough to want to keep reading the next few books.
A MIST READ!!!
If you love fast paced , action, spy thrillers... this is it!!
Hubbie and I are both totally addicted to these books.
The ppl who hate it must only read mills and boons!!
Seriously.. you will love it!!
I got grumpier and grumpier reading this, hoping it would turn.
Save your money, a jumbled mash of alarmingly overblown wankifery. I'm not glad I half read this, I'm less glad I spent $10.99 of my hard earned I want a refund. plot labours, rambles, timelines jump everywhere, so many groan moments, not least of which is the time he crushes a SIM card underfoot. How do you do that? I still giggle at the thought of it. Was this novel edited? Not in the class of Lee Child's Reacher by any measure.