*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
"This novel will be remembered as one of the best thrillers of the year." —Associated Press
"A shocking stunner in every way. The perfect thriller." —Robert Crais
When darkness closes in—he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz’s #1 international bestselling Orphan X series in Out of the Dark.
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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"I love the whole story but there are times I can not believe the moments when Evan doesn’t bring the right weapons or even more the whole Mia thing. I know she’s a deputy prosecuting attorney but come on, he saved her and she’s gonna tell on him. Then he saved a little girl and mother and again she has to hold him accountable. For what for saving people? I don’t get it. But all in all the story line is great. I hope there are more to come. "
— ablover (4 out of 5 stars)
“A shocking stunner in every way. The perfect thriller.”
— Robert Crais, #1 New York Times bestselling author“This novel will be remembered as one of the best thrillers of the year.”
— Associated Press“Hurwitz delivers with a stunning, action-packed plot that will leave readers breathless with anticipation and begging for more. When it’s all said and done, this is the book Hurwitz will be remembered for.”
— CrimeReads“A complicated, swift-paced plot involving numerous twists plus a surprise ending―the essentials that make up a great thriller…Plan to stay up all night reading this one.”
— Library Journal (starred review)" this book moves pretty quick. falls rite in line with the orphan x series. "
— JOSEPH, 5/19/2019Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed bestselling author of the Orphan X series, among other books. His books have been nominated for numerous awards, shortlisted for best novel of the year by International Thriller Writers, nominated for CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, chosen as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, honored as Book Sense picks, and translated into twenty languages. He holds a BA degree in English and psychology from Harvard and a master’s degree from Trinity College, Oxford.
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.