Gregg Hurwitz is the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Evan Smoak thrillers Orphan X, The Nowhere Man, Hellbent, Out of the Dark, Into the Fire, and Prodigal Son. 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.
That rare thing: a sequel that rivals the original. The No. 1
Bestselling The Nowhere Man is a thrilling, pulse-pounding ride for
readers and the hero of Orphan X...
'An even more intense and harrowing thriller. The pace that never
lets up' Daily Mail
He was once called Orphan X.
*from the publisher's description*
An even more intense and harrowing thriller. The pace never lets
up
*Daily Mail*
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 the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a
long, long time!
*Tess Gerritsen*
Memorable as hell
*James Patterson*
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 exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne
Identity ... A new thriller superstar is born!
*Robert Crais*
Orphan X is most exciting new series character since Jack Reacher.
A page-turning masterpiece of suspense
*Jonathan Kellerman*
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*
The page-turner of the season is Orphan X . . . Wonderful
*The Times*
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world
and dive into this amazing start to a new series
*Daily Mail*
'There is a pristine classicism to Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X, which
borrows from Robert Ludlum and superhero lore to bring us Evan
Smoak, adopted as a child by a shadowy figure called Jack and
trained to be an assassin as part of a secret US government scheme.
When the Orphan programme (as it is known) is disbanded, Evan moves
to California and devotes himself to good works - taking out a
slum-landlord paedophile cop, for example, after his victim calls
Evan's special number. However, his meticulously compartmentalised
life makes him vulnerable . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all
the right places. But it wouldn't work half as well if we didn't
feel Evan's pain and share his panic as the worst-case scenario
unfolds: another former Orphan, with a less noble agenda, seems to
be hunting him. Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a
modern master
*Guardian*
Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense
*Harlan Coben*
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*
Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher
*Lisa Gardner*
Bond, Frodo, Paddington Bear - some of literature's greatest heroes
have been orphans. Add Orphan X's Evan Smoak to the list
*Shortlist*
In terms of plot, characters, suspense and innovation, Orphan X is
outstanding . . . I've always thought that one reason for Tom
Clancy's success was the endless detail he provided about military
hardware, and that the James Bond novels benefited from the loving
attention Ian Fleming devoted to the martinis, expensive cars and
gorgeous women he so admired. Hurwitz outdoes both writers . . .
Orphan X is a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller. It's also
the start of a series, one that might give Lee Child's Jack Reacher
books a run for their money
*WASHINGTON POST*
Bestseller Hurwitz melds non-stop action and high-tech gadgetry
with an acute character study in this excellent series opener . . .
Evan Smoak is an electrifying character
*Publishers Weekly*
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world
and dive into this amazing start to a new series
*Associated Press*
Evan Smoak, the anti-hero from last year's "Orphan X," returns in
an even more intense and harrowing thriller
*Associated Press*
Superb on all levels and a must-read for all thriller fans
*Providence Journal*
brilliant sequel
*Booklist*
Hurwitz is a master-one of the very few--of the unexpected
*BookReporter*
Stellar sequel... will keep readers on the edge of their seats, but
it's Hurwitz's engaging, sympathetic characters who place this
thriller above the pack
*Publishers Weekly*
This novel anything but an ordinary thriller
*Criminal Element*
Hurwitz excels at writing smart characters and plots. His latest
continues his track record
*Library Journal*
Gregg Hurwitz has 'struck solid gold with The Nowhere Man, a
hard-hitting, near-perfect thriller that starts fast and never lets
up
*The Real Book Spy*
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