Orphan X
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4.3 • 59 Ratings
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- $15.99
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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.
