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OUT OF THE DARK by Gregg Hurwitz

"Evan Smoak is a hunted man, but he knows how to strike back!"

By: Gregg Hurwitz

Genres: Thriller | Suspense Spy

Posted: January 29, 2019

Evan Smoak is a trained assassin known as Orphan X. He was part of the Orphan Program until he broke with it and used everything he had learned to reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. Now he helps those that are desperate and have no one else to turn to. However, now someone is killing off all the Orphans, someone very high up in the government. Evan decides to strike back to take out the man behind the killings, the man who started the program, the President of the United States.

OUT OF THE DARK IS BOOK four in the Orphan X series. I've previously only read the first book, and a lot has happened since I read ORPHAN X. Nevertheless, the book was easy to get into, and I liked both "missions" he took on in this book. Besides his vendetta he is helping a young man whose entire family pretty much has been killed off because he crossed the wrong man. I must say that as much as I liked Evan's vendetta against the president this case was most heartbreaking.

OUT OF THE DARK is action-filled, but there are also some funny moments, often when he's with a neighbor and her son. Evan is trying pretty hard to be an ordinary man, but it's not easy when you've been trained as an assassin since you were a kid. I recommend not only this book, but to find the rest of the books in the Orphan X series to read. I know I'm eager to read the ones I've missed.

Book Summary

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.

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Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz

Out of the Dark

by: Gregg Hurwitz

Orphan X #4

Minotaur Books
February 1, 2019
On Sale: January 29, 2019
Featuring: Evan Smoak
400 pages
ISBN: 125012042X
EAN: 9781250120427
Kindle: B07D2BWHF8
Hardcover / e-Book

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