Gregg Hurwitz

The astounding sixth novel from Gregg Hurwitz featuring Evan Smoak - Orphan X aka The Nowhere Man

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed . . . As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name-The Nowhere Man-and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer-in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he's least equipped to do-live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew-his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran-a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran's only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he's fought for is on the line-including his own life.

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed-in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name-The Nowhere Man-and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer-in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he's least equipped to do-live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew-his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran-a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran's only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he's fought for is on the line-including his own life.

* A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller * "Read the Orphan X series. You'll thank me later."--David Baldacci Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns--just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented--and most feared--men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate. If anyone is truly desperate, it's Max Merriweather. Max is at the end of his rope. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. However, someone really wants that key, badly enough that Max--and anyone he turns to--is in deadly danger. What seems like a simple job for The Nowhere Man turns out to be anything but. Behind every threat he takes out, a deadlier one emerges and Evan Smoak must put himself in greater danger than ever before as he heads once more Into The Fire.

"Brilliantly conceived and plotted ... Read this book. You'll thank me later." -- David Baldacci Who is Orphan X? The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's not merely a legend. "Excellent... A smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller...might give Lee Child's Jack Reacher books a run for their money."--The Washington Post Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X--until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training who will exploit Evan's secret new identity as the Nowhere Man to eliminate him. "Hurwitz melds nonstop action and high-tech gadgetry...in this excellent series opener." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

THE GRIPPING NEW SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUT OF THE DARK AND ORPHAN X'STELLAR. GETS BETTER WITH EACH INSTALLMENT'DAILY MAILHE WANTED TO END IT. BUT IT CAN NEVER BE OVER. Evan Smoak - former government assassin, 'Orphan-X', turned white knight of last resort - is hanging up his gun. When he gets one last call. A man, left a package by a murdered cousin, has an assassin on his trail. Easy work for Evan. Except behind the assassin is someone worse. And behind them something darker still. How long can Evan keep standing? How many times can a man step into the fire?'Memorable as hell' James Patterson'A new series character to rival Reacher' Independent

"A swift-paced plot involving numerous twists plus a surprise ending... Plan to stay up all night reading this one." --Library Journal (starred review) Orphan X--the man, the legend, and the only one to right the world's wrongs when no one else can. . . Evan Smoak was taken from a group home at age twelve and raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets: assassins. Evan was Orphan X. But he broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, someone who could help the truly desperate when all hope was lost. But now Evan's past is catching up to him--and there's no one left to rescue but himself. Someone at the highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After his mentor was killed, Evan vowed revenge. Now, is target is the man who started the Program and who is the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President of the United States. But the President knows that Evan is after him and he has issued a counter-attack using the most powerful weapon he has: the first recruit of the Program, Orphan A. Now, with Evan devoting all his resources to outsmart his enemy, it's Orphan vs. Orphan--before the President harms more innocent people and the future of the country hangs in the balance

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR' ASSOCIATED PRESSHOW DO YOU STOP THE MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH? Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government programme. He left it behind long ago but now someone has been killing off the orphans - and all evidence of the programme. Only one person would and could do this. The man who created it. He'll do anything - anything - to save himself. But what can one man - even an Orphan - do alone? Against the President of the United States . . .'THE CHAPTERS SPEED BY LIKE AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'WEAPONS-GRADE THRILLER WRITING' GUARDIAN

Assigned to track down a dishonored recon Marine who escaped from an island penitentiary after causing the death of a murderous fellow inmate, Deputy U. S. Marshal Tim Rackley investigates the underworld of a large pharmaceutical company and finds himself questioning the circumstances under which his target was convicted.

When darkness closes in--he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz's #1 international bestselling Orphan X series. Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets--i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him. Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed, he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the Program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President of the United States. But President Bennett knows that Orphan X is after him and, using weapons of his own, he's decided to counter-attack. Bennett activates the one man who has the skills and experience to track down and take out Orphan X--the first recruit of the Program, Orphan A. With Evan devoting all his skills, resources, and intelligence to find a way through the layers of security that surround the President, suddenly he also has to protect himself against the deadliest of opponents. It's Orphan vs. Orphan with the future of the country--even the world--on the line.

when there's nowhere else to turn. . . His name is Evan Smoak. Taken from a group home at age twelve, he was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After breaking with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. Now, the person in need of help is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, and the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government forces are busy trying to scrub the remaining assets and traces of the Orphan Program and they have finally tracked down Jack. With little time remaining, and an elusive new enemy on his trail, Jack gives Evan his last assignment: to find and protect his last prot g and recruit for the program--or die trying. . .

WINNER of the ITW THRILLER AWARD - Best Young Adult NovelTHE FIRST BOOK IN THE HIGH-OCTANE YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE THRILLER SERIES FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ. It's never really been my thing to be the brave one - that's always been my older brother Patrick - but something world-changing is happening in our small town of Creek's Cause. Parasites have infected everyone over the age of eighteen, making them violent, and if they even sniff a kid they either bash our brains in or take us back to their creepy lair. We're trapped at the school with the other remaining survivors, including Patrick's girlfriend Alex, and we don't know how long we'll last. The school is surrounded by infected adults, and we're sure that there is something else out there, something controlling the people that used to be our parents, our guardians. But here's the real problem, Patrick is turning eighteen in a few days, so it's up to me - Chance Rain - to find a way to save him. And maybe, just maybe if we survive the next few weeks then we can help save humanity. From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X and comics in the Batman, Wolverine, and Punisher universes comes The Rains, a thrilling adventure as relentless as The Hunger Games and as page-turning as Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave.

THE SECOND BREAKNECK PACED YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE THRILLER IN THE RAINS BROTHERS SERIES FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ. Chance, that's me, the youngest Rain brother - and right now I'm kind of stuck between a rock and hard place.... Or more specifically, tied up and kidnapped. My captors? We call them Drones, and they serve the Harvesters that have infected all the adults in our town of Creek's Cause with parasites, turning them into mindless rage zombies that have only two objectives: capture or kill. What we know so far is that there are two factions of Drones, one that wants my big brother Patrick and me to save the world, and the other that is taking kids and using them to hatch something... otherworldly. I don't want to know what they are, but I'm pretty sure I'm about to find out. What I do know is that Patrick and his girlfriend Alex are out there, they aren't dead and they won't let me die at the hands of the Harvesters. Not when we have things to do: because come on, the world isn't going to save itself. Last Chance is the relentlessly action-packed sequel to The Rains. Fans of The Hunger Games and Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave will love this thrilling adventure from the bestselling author of Orphan X and comics in the Batman, Wolverine and Punisher universes.

The explosive Orphan X thriller from bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz.'HURWITZ FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS' GUARDIANTO THOSE WHO TRAINED HIM, HE'S ORPHAN-X. TO THOSE WHO NEED HIM, HE'S THE NOWHERE MAN. Once a secret government assassin, Evan Smoak walked away to help others. But when his old handler calls with a warning - the Orphans are being killed off - he also receives a final mission. A young girl - the last Orphan recruit - is in danger. First, Evan must find her. Then he must protect her. But those tasked with her elimination will not stop. And leading them is one of Evan's fellow Orphans - who'll do anything to see him dead . . ._______________'WONDERFUL' THE TIMES'MEMORABLE AS HELL' JAMES PATTERSON

Under sin uppväxt i den topphemliga organisationen Orphan inom det amerikanska försvarsdepartementet tränades Evan Smoak till att bli en briljant lönnmördare - tills han en dag hoppade av och blev Nowhere Man, utsatta människors sista hopp. Att lämna Orphan gör man dock inte ostraffat ... Neddrogad och förvirrad vaknar Evan upp i en luxuös säng, utan en aning om var i världen han befinner sig. Vet hans kidnappare om att deras gisslan är en av världens skickligaste mördare? I sin fångenskap nås Evan av ett desperat rop på hjälp och som alltid agerar han fullt ut när någon befinner sig i verklig nöd. En man från ingenstans är den fristående fortsättningen på Gregg Hurwitz spänningsladdade bästsäljare Vem är Evan Smoak? Med fängslande karaktärer, klaustrofobiska miljöer och ett språkligt schvung hugger Gregg Hurwitz fast läsaren i ett hårt grepp. GREGG HURWITZ är uppvuxen i San Francisco och bor idag i Los Angeles. Han har studerat vid Oxford och har examen både från Harvard och Trinity College. Hurwitz debuterade 1999, har 15 thrillers bakom sig och är utgiven i 25 länder. Han skriver också manus till film, teve och serieromaner, bland annat till Wolverine och Batman. Sagt om Hurwitz författarskap:"Det här är väldigt spännande och otroligt intressant." Magnus Utvik, Gomorron Sverige om Vem är Evan Smoak?" Läs den här boken du kommer att tacka mig sedan." David Baldacci om Vem är Evan Smoak?

A gripping thriller from the bestselling author of RichardJudy selections ORPHAN X and YOU'RE NEXT. How can you prove yourself innocent when your own mind is playing tricks on you?

Winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best YA Novel "A brilliant, terrifying, rule-breaking reimagining of the zombie novel."--Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin "One of those all-too-creepy-and-believable stories. Chilling "--Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author "Readers with a 5th Wave-shaped hole in their sf-loving hearts will rejoice."--Booklist "In his first book for teens, Hurwitz crafts a tense, disturbing tale that's simultaneously a story driven by brother love and the determination to survive against impossible odds."--Publishers Weekly From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X and comics in the Batman, Wolverine, and Punisher universes comes this relentlessly thrilling adventure perfect for fans of The Walking Dead and The 5th Wave. A Hollywood screenwriter, developer, and producer (V, The Book of Henry, Black Flags), Gregg Hurwitz brings his cinematic flair to this suspenseful new tale. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple attacks from infected adults by the time they arrive at the school where other young survivors are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that transformed them takes hold after people turn eighteen--and Patrick's birthday is only a few days away. Determined to save Patrick's life and the lives of the remaining kids, the brothers embark on a mission to uncover the truth about the parasites--and what they find is horrifying. Battling an enemy not of this earth, Chance and Patrick become humanity's only hope for salvation.

"Will keep readers on the edge of their seats."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Who is THE NOWHERE MAN? He is spoken about only in whispers. He comes to those in greatest need of his protection. There is no enemy he cannot fight. He lives by his own code. He takes no prisoners. His name is Evan Smoak. Taken from a group home when he was young, Evan was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X--until he used everything he'd learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But now, his new life has been interrupted by a surprise attack from an unlikely source. Captured, drugged, and spirited off to a remote location, Evan finds himself heavily guarded from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage, but they do not know that they're dealing with one of the deadliest, most resourceful men on earth. "Superb on all levels and a must-read for all thriller fans."--Providence Journal "A masterpiece of suspense and thrills."--Associated Press on Orphan X

The No. 1 Bestselling The Nowhere Man is a thrilling, pulse-pounding ride for readers and the hero of Orphan X . . .'THE PACE NEVER LETS UP' DAILY MAILTHEY TRAINED HIM TO HUNT. NOW HE'S THE HUNTED . . . A former government military asset code-named Orphan-X, Evan Smoak works as the Nowhere Man out to protect the helpless. Until the night it all goes wrong. Ambushed, drugged and kidnapped, Evan wakes in a locked room. He's outnumbered and outgunned. His captors are sure they've outsmarted him. But they've got it all wrong. He's not locked up with them. They're locked up with him . . .___________'MEMORABLE AS ALL HELL' JAMES PATTERSON'A DIZZYING RIDE' TESS GERRITSEN