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Orphan X
'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 ........
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 ........
Gregg Hurwitz is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Orphan X and The Nowhere Man, the first Evan Smoak novels. 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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'Outstanding in every way' Lee Child
'The page turned of the season' The Times
'Read this book. You will thank me later' David Baldacci
'A rival to reacher' The Independent
Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time! (Tess Gerritsen)
Memorable as hell (James Patterson)
The page-turner of the season is Orphan X . . . Wonderful (Times)
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)
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series (Daily Mail)
If you loved Orphan X, read the gripping follow-up The Nowhere Man and brand new sequel Out of the Dark!
'The page turned of the season' The Times
'Read this book. You will thank me later' David Baldacci
'A rival to reacher' The Independent
Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time! (Tess Gerritsen)
Memorable as hell (James Patterson)
The page-turner of the season is Orphan X . . . Wonderful (Times)
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)
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series (Daily Mail)
If you loved Orphan X, read the gripping follow-up The Nowhere Man and brand new sequel Out of the Dark!
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