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Audio Book Review: Out of the Dark: an Orphan X novel by Gregg Hurwitz

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Release Date:  January 29, 2019 Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 49 minutes Narrator:  Scott Brick Genre: Thriller/suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis:  Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him. Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed, he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the Program and who ...

ARC Book Review: Nowhere Man (Orphan X book 2) by Gregg Hurwitz

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Release Date:  January 17, 2017 Publisher:  Minotaur Books Format:  ebook Pages:  369 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate, he can —He will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured, drugged, and spirited off to a remote location, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and...

Book Review: Orphan X: A novel by Gregg Hurwitz

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Release Date:  January 19, 2016 Publisher:  Minotaur Books Format:  ebook Pages:  367 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  | Audio Synopsis:  The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he’s not merely a legend. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X—until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training who will exploit Evan’s secret new identity as the Nowh...