Gregg Hurwitz
3) Prodigal son
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to avoid being seen. As she creeps along, she finds a broken...
6) Orphan X
Author
Series
Evan Smoak thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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 no legend. 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 part of the off-the-books black...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
8) Dark horse
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission--The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with...
9) Tell no lies
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Attempting to enter private practice against the wishes of his mother, counselor Daniel Brasher receives a baffling sequence of threats directed toward murder victims and struggles to stop a killer who is outmaneuvering the authorities.
10) The nowhere man
Author
Series
Evan Smoak thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan 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...
11) Hellbent
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke 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.
But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government...
12) The survivor
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease nine months earlier, Nate is about to leap off an 11th-floor ledge of a bank building in Santa Monica, Calif., when he notices a robbery in progress through the window next to where he is standing. Nate climbs back in the window undetected, grabs a handgun a masked man has conveniently set down, and, thanks to his ROTC firearms training, succeeds in shooting dead five of the six robbers. In revenge, the thwarted...
13) Out of the dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Taken from a group home at age 12 and trained in a black-box government program aimed at creating assassins, Evan Smoak escaped and dedicates his life to helping the truly desperate. A plan to mop up the remaining orphans has Orphan A gunning for him.
14) Lone wolf
Author
Series
The Orphan X novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
15) Huérfano X
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Evan Smoak es el Huerfano X: un heroe como nunca se vio antes. Entrenado en secreto desde la ninez para ser un asesino eficiente y despiadado, ahora utiliza sus habilidades para ayudar a personas en situaciones desesperadas y eliminar a los abusadores de sus vidas. A cambio, solo pide una cosa: que den su numero de telefono a otras personas que necesiten su ayuda. Pese a que oficialmente no existe, su pasado le ha generado algunos poderosos enemigos...
16) The crime writer
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Drew Danner, a L.A. crime novelist, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head and no memory of being found convulsing over his ex-fiancee's body the previous night. To reconstruct the story, the writer must now become the protagonist, searching the corridors of his life and the city he loves. Soon Drew closes in on clues he may or may not have left for himself, and as another young woman is similarly murdered he has to ask difficult questions--not...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The Boss Man has an unexpected motive in destroying Mike Wingate, who's worked his way up from the bottom to become a successful home contractor in Lost Hills, California. To protect his family and himself, Mike, who was raised in a foster home, summons his only friend from those days, the formidable Shep, who has grown up to be a career criminal of considerable skill.