The Last Orphan
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4.8 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The audiobook features a bonus conversation between Gregg Hurwitz and #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, author of the award-winning Detective D. D. Warren novels.
Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk.
As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure never got out.
When he remade himself as The Nowhere Man, dedicated to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble, Evan found himself slowly back on the government's radar. Having eliminated most of the Orphans in the program, the government will stop at nothing to eliminate the threat they see in Evan. But Orphan X has always been several steps ahead of his pursuers.
Until he makes one little mistake...
Now the President has him in her control and offers Evan a deal - eliminate a rich, powerful man she says is too dangerous to live and, in turn, she'll let Evan survive. But when Evan left the Program he swore to only use his skills against those who really deserve it. Now he has to decide what's more important - his principles or his life.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The president pulls a former black-ops assassin back into the fold in this high-octane listen. After going rogue, former government operative Evan Smoak (aka Orphan X, aka the Nowhere Man) has done a pretty good job of avoiding capture—until the day he slips up. Now he’s back in government custody, forcibly recruited for one more job: taking out a brilliant and charismatic billionaire with far too much political leverage. This instalment in Gregg Hurwitz’s long-running Orphan X series is packed with deep intrigue and explosive action. Evan is a pitch-perfect antihero: a wounded, brooding badass who lives by a code of honor but won’t hesitate to enact brutally efficient violence when he has to. Veteran narrator Scott Brick’s voice is like a steel cable, delivering the thrilling tale with total precision and strength. If you’re a fan of the John Wick movies, check out this dark, gripping listen.