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.
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*
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 gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a
long, long time!
*Tess Gerritsen*
Orphan X is most exciting new series character since Jack Reacher.
A page-turning masterpiece of suspense
*Jonathan Kellerman*
Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher
*Lisa Gardner*
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 not good. Orphan X is great. Whatever you like best in
a thriller - action, plot, character, suspense - Orphan X has
it
*Simon Toyne*
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*
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
*Publishers Weekly*
In terms of plot, characters, suspense and innovation, Orphan X is
outstanding . . . I've always thought that one reason for Tom
Clancy's success was the endless detail he provided about military
hardware, and that the James Bond novels benefited from the loving
attention Ian Fleming devoted to the martinis, expensive cars and
gorgeous women he so admired. Hurwitz outdoes both writers . . .
Orphan X is a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller. It's also
the start of a series, one that might give Lee Child's Jack Reacher
books a run for their money
*WASHINGTON POST*
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world
and dive into this amazing start to a new series
*Associated Press*
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*
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world
and dive into this amazing start to a new series
*Daily Mail*
Bond, Frodo, Paddington Bear - some of literature's greatest heroes
have been orphans. Add Orphan X's Evan Smoak to the list
*Shortlist*
The page turner of the season
*The Times*
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