The Last Orphan
An Orphan X Novel
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4.1 • 74 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
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. If you’re a fan of the John Wick movies, check out this dark, gripping read.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Hurwitz's wild eighth Orphan X novel (after 2022's Dark Horse), a lapse on the part of Evan Smoak (aka the Nowhere Man), who was once turned by the U.S. government into "an expendable weapon who could execute missions illegal under international law" but now helps those in trouble for free, leads to his capture by a small army on the orders of the U.S. president, Victoria Donahue-Carr. Donahue-Carr will reinstate an informal presidential pardon for Smoak if he agrees to take out Luke Devine, a billionaire with enough leverage on powerful people to "become his own nation-state," who's opposing the passage of a trillion-dollar environmental bill that Donahue-Carr's reelection hinges on. Smoak's reluctance to pursue Devine changes when the plutocrat's implicated in a double murder, and the sister of one of the victims asks for justice. The over-the-top aspects of Smoak's life, which include sleeping on a bed "held three feet off the floor by herculean magnets," and the many plot contrivances demand a lot from readers. Fans of Robert Ludlum's action-packed novels featuring another skilled killer protagonist looking to do the right thing, Jason Bourne, are most likely to be satisfied.
Customer Reviews
Have read many but….
A third of the way through and oh so boring. This one is more of a psychological (thriller?). Too much back story on the characters and not enough action.