Nemesis
An Orphan X Novel
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4.4 • 1.1천개의 평가
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No greater friend. No deadlier enemy.
The explosive new novel in the New York Times bestselling Orphan X series is flipping the acclaimed series on its head. Find out why series superfans and new readers alike are calling it a “knockout” (firstCLUE).
Evan Smoak is a highly trained former government assassin who has survived for years by keeping his circle to a few trusted confidants and a strict code he calls “The Ten Commandments.” But when Evan suddenly finds himself at odds with his oldest friend, all the rules he lives by shatter—and the consequences are murderous.
Tommy Stojack might be Evan's best friend in the world. He’s a gifted gunsmith who has created much of Evan's own weapons and combat gear. But now, he has apparently crossed one of Evan's hardest lines and their argument explodes into open warfare. Now Evan has no choice but to track and face down his only friend.
In the meantime, Tommy has left town in order to honor his own promise to help a dead friend's son. While Tommy is fighting to save the son with everything he’s got, Evan arrives with vengeance in mind.
But as deadly as the former Orphan X is, there is an even more dangerous threat about to arrive on the scene. The only question left is will any of them get out alive.
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Hurwitz's boilerplate 10th thriller featuring master assassin Evan Smoak (after Lone Wolf) offers more of the same—for better and worse. Smoak's traumatic youth, during which he was plucked from foster care at 12 by the U.S. Department of Defense and trained as "an expendable human weapon," set him up for a friendless adulthood. In his work as a private mercenary, however, he established a close connection with arms manufacturer Tommy Stojack. Their bond is threatened when Smoak learns that Stojack sold weapons to the Wolf, Smoak's nemesis, who used Stojack's artillery to try to assassinate Smoak. Devastated, Smoak tells Stojack that he's crossed a red line, setting the stage for a duel to the death the next time they meet. Their impending confrontation is complicated by the arrival of hit men, whose motivations and employer remain obscure, though they seem to be targeting Stojack, or somebody close to him. Hurwitz delivers serviceable action and a few surprises, but stilted prose ("If morning dawned again, it would dawn on the vast, great, true resonant promise of a future that was anyone's to force") and an air of resignation bring this down. It's strictly for the series' most dedicated fans.
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A challenge for the first time….
I’ve been a solid fan of Hurwitz going back to the Tim Rackley series and have not missed a book of this series.
And usually I hum through the book in two weeks. And then have a year to wait.
That did not happen this time.
Admittedly, I struggled, getting around the midpoint of this book and stopping for a long time. I wasn’t sure why, but I did and just recently came back to finish…..thankful I did. And it bred some thoughts as to why I put this book down for so long.
Tommy and Evan going at one another just hurt. The themes in Calvary with the boys Tommy went to just rang so strongly to all the nonsense in our real world now. But most of all……Evan was cast to me for a while not as the shining exemplar he’s always been……but actually with some shades of “black hat” in my impression. It really threw me off
But I’m so glad I came back. Hurwitz always gives a little bit of growth, of finding a way back to humanity for Evan in every book. This one was painful getting there…..but the payoff of Evan seeing how the Commandments can throw off dual outcomes easily was such a fantastic end.
Making up with Tommy was so great. Finding him as he did at the end was not……but it was handled well. Tommy got to go on his terms.
And after this odd but in the end fulfilling Hurwitz experience I don’t have long to wait for the next one.
Ok. Not great.
I’ve read all the books in the Orphan X Series, this one is not his best. Very slow at times, then a too abrupt ending.
Sad departure
Simply not at the same level of the previous novels.