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Orphan X

Orphan X

Summary

'Outstanding in every way' Lee Child

'The page turned of the season' The Times
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'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 . . .

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'Read this book. You will thank me later' David Baldacci

'A rival to reacher' The Independent

If you loved Orphan X, read the gripping follow-up The Nowhere Man and brand new sequel Out of the Dark!

Reviews

  • 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

About the author

Gregg Hurwitz

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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