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Prepare yourself… for the dramatically intense and exciting new kid on the block, except Evan Smoak isn't a kid, he's a highly trained killer with his humanity surprisingly intact. Smoak has left a top secret programme, he is prepared to put his life on the line to help those in need. The first few chapters completely set the scene, allowing you immediate access to Evan’s mind, to the way he thinks, the way he has to live. The in depth detail of the security and secrecy, and the occasional glimpses of Evan’s past with his mentor, add a compelling new dimension. Gregg Hurwitz has created a ballsy, out there, wonderful hit of escapism, that non the less feels as though it could be real. I punched the air when I realised ‘Orphan X’ is the first in a series, there is most definitely more to come from Evan Smoak and this has all the hallmarks of a series to rival Bourne. This was such an exceptional and exhilarating ride, and I loved every single micro second of it!
Books in The Orphan X Series:
1. Orphan X
3. Hellbent
'Do you need my help?'
It was the first question he asked.
They called him when they had nowhere else to turn.
As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage.
Raised and trained in a top secret programme, he was sent to bad places to do things the government denied ever happened.
Then he broke with the programme, using what he'd learned to vanish. Now he helps the desperate and deserving.
But someone's on his trail.
Someone who knows his past and believes that the boy once known as Orphan X must die ...
In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion some of our Reader Review Panel were also lucky enough to read and review this title. Click here to read the full reviews.
'Orphan X blows the doors off most thrillers I've read and catapults the readers on a cat-and-mouse that feels like a missile launch. Read this book. You will thank me later' -- David Baldacci
'Orphan X is his best yet - a real celebration of all the strengths Gregg Hurwitz brings to a thriller' -- Lee Child
'Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time!' -- Tess Gerritsen
'Orphan X is most exciting new series character since Jack Reacher. A page-turning masterpiece of suspense -- Jonathan Kellerman Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher' -- Lisa Gardner
'Orphan X is the most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity ... A new thriller superstar is born' -- Robert Crais
'Orphan X is not good. Orphan X is great. Whatever you like best in a thriller - action, plot, character, suspense - Orphan X has it' -- Simon Toyne
'A new series character to rival Reacher ... anyone reading Orphan X won't be surprised that a cadre of peers, from Tess Gerritsen to Lee Child, have lined up to praise it' Independent
ISBN: 9781405910705
Publication date: 01/09/2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718181840
Publication date: 21/04/2016
Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
| ISBN: | 9781405910705 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2016 |
| Author: | Gregg Hurwitz |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 480 pages |
| Genres: | Action Adventure / Spy, Reader Reviewed Books, eBook Favourites, Thriller / Suspense, |
| Categories: | Espionage & spy thriller, |
Gregg Hurwitz is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Orphan X, the first Evan Smoak novel. He is also the author of You're Next, The Survivor, Tell No Lies and Don't Look Back. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities, he lives with his family in LA, where he also writes for the screen, TV and comics, including Wolverine and Batman.
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