Orphan X

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 laterOrphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I’ve read in a long, long time!Memorable as hellThe 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 thrillerOrphan X is the most exciting thriller I’ve read since The Bourne Identity … A new thriller superstar is born!Orphan X is most exciting new series character since Jack Reacher. A page-turning masterpiece of suspenseA 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 *‘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 *

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.