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Lone Wolf

The Thrilling Orphan X Sunday Times Bestseller

The Last Orphan

Dark Horse

An Orphan X Short Story

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The Nowhere Man

The gripping Sunday Times bestselling thriller

Out of the Dark

Into the Fire

The explosive and thrilling Sunday Times bestseller

Prodigal Son

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A Dark Conspiracy. An Innocent Victim

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The most gripping thriller I've read in a long, long time!

The page-turner of the season is Orphan X ... Wonderful

The most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity

A new series character to rival Reacher

A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series

There is a pristine classicism to Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X, which borrows from Robert Ludlum and superhero lore to bring us Evan Smoak . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places . . . Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a modern master.

Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense

Orphan X is not good. Orphan X is great. Whatever you like best in a thriller - action, plot, character, suspense - Orphan X has it

Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher

Bond, Frodo, Paddington Bear - some of literature's greatest heroes have been orphans. Add Orphan X's Evan Smoak to the list

Orphan X is outstanding . . . a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller

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

He is known by some as Evan Smoak. To a few he is known as Orphan X. But generally he is not known at all. 
 
Taken from a children's home as a young boy, Evan Smoak was a trained to become a government operative known as Orphan X. But then he broke with the programme. 
 
 
Now living out of sight and out of reach of his former employers, Evan chances upon a young woman in a coffee shop in Northern California who needs his help. Brutalized and under the control of a very powerful, dangerous man, she knows her life is at risk if she doesn't escape. And Evan knows that only a man with his particular set of skills has any chance of setting her free. His next move was never in doubt. 
 
 
Buy A Bullet is the story of the day Orphan X became The Nowhere Man.

AN EXCLUSIVE EBOOK SHORT STORY, NOT A FULL-LENGTH NOVEL. 
 
Taken from a children's home as a young boy, Evan Smoak was a trained to become a government operative known as Orphan X. But then he broke with the programme. 
 
Now living out of sight and out of reach of his former employers, Evan chances upon a young woman in a coffee shop in Northern California who needs his help. Brutalized and under the control of a very powerful, dangerous man, she knows her life is at risk if she doesn't escape. And Evan knows that only a man with his particular set of skills has any chance of setting her free. His next move was never in doubt. 
 
Buy A Bullet is the story of the day Orphan X became The Nowhere Man. 
 
 
Praise for Orphan X: 
 
'Outstanding in every way' 
LEE CHILD 
 
'Read this book. You will thank me later' 
DAVID BALDACCI 
 
'The most gripping thriller I've read in a long, long time!' 
TESS GERRITSEN 
 
'The page-turner of the season is Orphan X ... Wonderful' 
THE TIMES 
 
'Memorable as hell' 
JAMES PATTERSON 
 
'The most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity' 
ROBERT CRAIS 
 
'A page-turning masterpiece' 
JONATHAN KELLERMAN 
 
'A new series character to rival Reacher' 
INDEPENDENT 
 
'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 . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places . . . 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 
 
'Orphan X is outstanding . . . a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller' 
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' 
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY 
 
'A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series' 
ASSOCIATED PRESS

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, Prodigal Son, Dark Horse and The Last Orphan. He is also the author of You're Next, The Survivor, Tell No Lies and Don't Look Back. He lives with his family in LA, where he also writes for the screen, TV and comics.

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An Orphan X Short Story

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