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Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed...
As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name - The Nowhere Man - and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer - in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he's least equipped to do - live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew - his mother.
Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran - a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran's only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he's fought for is on
the line - including his own life.
The world needs a new hero, and Evan Smoak - aka Orphan X - is here to help in his electrifying 8th adventure perfect for fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher.
When Evan Smoak broke with the Orphan program, he carried secrets that the government would do anything to hide. Dedicating his skills to helping the desperate, Evan slowly found himself back on the government's radar. Having eliminated most Orphans, the government will stop at nothing to do likewise to Evan. But Orphan X has always stayed ahead of his pursuers.
Until he makes one little mistake...
Now the President is in control, offering a final deal: eliminate a rich, powerful man, and she'll let Evan survive. Now Evan has to decide what's more important- his principles or his life.
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Lone Wolf (Paperback)
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Following a career in which he was always the most dangerous man in the room, ex-government assassin Evan Smoak is the last person his friends should ever have to worry about. But when Evan, formerly codenamed Orphan X, drops out of sight they’re concerned. They were right to be. A personal crisis has left him on his knees.
If anyone remembered his first name they never cared to use it. But Allman’s lack of empathy hasn’t proven any barrier to building a tech empire whose tentacles reach into every aspect of people’s lives. And in the rush to praise his genius, no one’s asking what it could mean for humanity. Nor what Allman’s got coming next.
Someone is leaving a trail of dead in their wake. Apparently chosen at random, their deaths dressed up as accidents or suicides. The woman responsible is known only as the Wolf and looks to be every bit Evan’s equal. She now has him in her sights.
How does it all connect? What is at stake? And will Evan rediscover the instinct and skill he needs to prevail? Or die trying.
EVERY LIFE HAS ITS PRICE
She’s known as the Wolf: an assassin working through a kill list with
cool efficiency.
Then someone gets in her way: Evan Smoak.
First, he refuses to conveniently die.
Then he stops her killing others.
Evan has the Wolf’s measure. He met plenty like her in a former life.
But not since he's had so much to lose.
And the powers behind her are bigger than he could possibly imagine.
The Wolf's got Evan in her sights.
She won’t stop. It’s kill – or be killed. Cat and mouse.
And Evan has one fatal weakness.
His humanity . . .
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Lone Wolf
Gregg Hurwitz
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Orphan X has spent years atoning for
his former life. Now he faces an impossible choice: kill, or be killed
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HE FACES AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE:
KILL, OR BE KILLED . . .
Trained as a government assassin codenamed Orphan X, Evan Smoak left
that life behind to protect the helpless. Saving lives beats taking
them. Until a call from the President forces him back into his old
world.
Her instruction is clear: kill a man who is a danger to the government,
or Evan himself will face execution himself. But the President should
know better. To force Orphan X's hand will only make him more
dangerous. Especially when he has reason to doubt the integrity of her
motives ...
Pre-order Evan Smoak's thrilling return in The Last Orphan, 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. Praise for the Orphan X series 'Feels like a missile launch'
DAVID BALDACCI 'Outstanding in every way' LEE CHILD 'Weapons-grade
thriller writing' GUARDIAN 'An immensely entertaining adventure'
THE TIMES
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR'
ASSOCIATED PRESS HOW DO YOU STOP THE MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH?
Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government
programme. He left it behind long ago but now someone has been
killing off the orphans - and all evidence of the programme. Only
one person would and could do this. The man who created it. He'll
do anything - anything - to save himself. But what can one man -
even an Orphan - do alone? Against the President of the United
States . . . 'THE CHAPTERS SPEED BY LIKE AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'WEAPONS-GRADE THRILLER WRITING' GUARDIAN
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Orphan X (Paperback)
Gregg Hurwitz
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The explosive Orphan X thriller from bestselling author Gregg
Hurwitz. 'HURWITZ FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS' GUARDIAN TO THOSE WHO
TRAINED HIM, HE'S ORPHAN-X. TO THOSE WHO NEED HIM, HE'S THE NOWHERE
MAN. Once a secret government assassin, Evan Smoak walked away to
help others. But when his old handler calls with a warning - the
Orphans are being killed off - he also receives a final mission. A
young girl - the last Orphan recruit - is in danger. First, Evan
must find her. Then he must protect her. But those tasked with her
elimination will not stop. And leading them is one of Evan's fellow
Orphans - who'll do anything to see him dead . . . _______________
'WONDERFUL' THE TIMES 'MEMORABLE AS HELL' JAMES PATTERSON
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New Think (Paperback)
Gregg Hurwitz; Illustrated by Mike Deodato, Ramon Rosanas
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Orphan X (Paperback)
Gregg Hurwitz
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The thrilling new Orphan X book and SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from
bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz 'Feels like a missile launch'
DAVID BALDACCI _______ As Orphan-X, Evan Smoak was trained to be a
secret government assassin - until he quit. As the Nowhere Man,
he's the guy to call if no one else can help. He'll save you. But
when a woman gets in touch claiming to be his mother, he can't know
if his true family needs help or this is a trap. Has Evan's past
reached out to claim him? Or is someone out to ensure he has no
future? _______ 'A stellar series, and the stories get better with
each instalment' DAILY MAIL Praise for Orphan X 'Outstanding in
every way' LEE CHILD 'Weapons-grade thriller writing' GUARDIAN 'A
stellar series, and the stories get better with each instalment'
DAILY MAIL 'An immensely entertaining adventure' THE TIMES
The thrilling new Orphan X book and SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from
bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz 'A stellar series, and the stories
get better with each instalment' DAILY MAIL ______ He can escape
anything. Except his own past . . . 'Evan. It's your mother. I
heard you help people . . .' Evan Smoak used to be known as Orphan
X: a figure as elusive as a rumour. Plucked from a foster home and
trained as an off-the-books assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak
always fought to help those most desperate. The kind of help no one
else could provide. But now, forced into early retirement, he dares
not trust the phone call. Nor the caller claiming to be his mother,
asking him to protect a complete stranger who just happened to be
in the wrong place at the wrong time. None of it stacks up. Yet it
bears the tell-tale signs of the secret world that made him, and
from inside it, a deadly new threat to the nation's security. But
this time the danger is more personal than he could have ever
imagined. Because blood runs deep . . . Praise for Orphan X
'Outstanding in every way' LEE CHILD 'Weapons-grade thriller
writing' GUARDIAN 'An immensely entertaining adventure' THE TIMES
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