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Hellbent
- An Orphan X Novel
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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.
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The best of the Orphan series
- Écrit par Tom le 2018-09-18
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The Nowhere Man
- Evan Smoak, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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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.
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Awesome book
- Écrit par Colin Myers le 2019-06-28
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The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story
- Evan Smoak
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Before he was the Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak was a highly trained government operative known to a few as Orphan X. But he now lives by hiding in plain sight, keeping his head down and his eyes clear. So when a local summer intern for a tabloid news site finds herself trailing an aggressive reporter into a crime zone, things go terribly awry. The only person who can help her is a man with the background and the skills of the Nowhere Man.
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Not worth $2.
- Écrit par KHinch le 2019-03-06
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Into the Fire: An Orphan X Novel
- Evan Smoak, Book 5
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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.
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Mission Critical
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
- Durée: 17 h et 1 min
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Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land in an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the prisoner. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers, but what can one operative do against a trained team of assassins?
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My last Gray Man novel
- Écrit par lewis chandon le 2019-03-11
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Orphan X
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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 box Orphan program, designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence assets - i.e. assassins. He was Orphan X. Evan broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear.
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Not your usual tough guy stuff
- Écrit par Tom le 2018-09-18
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Hellbent
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- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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.
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The best of the Orphan series
- Écrit par Tom le 2018-09-18
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The Nowhere Man
- Evan Smoak, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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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.
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Awesome book
- Écrit par Colin Myers le 2019-06-28
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The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story
- Evan Smoak
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Before he was the Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak was a highly trained government operative known to a few as Orphan X. But he now lives by hiding in plain sight, keeping his head down and his eyes clear. So when a local summer intern for a tabloid news site finds herself trailing an aggressive reporter into a crime zone, things go terribly awry. The only person who can help her is a man with the background and the skills of the Nowhere Man.
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Not worth $2.
- Écrit par KHinch le 2019-03-06
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Into the Fire: An Orphan X Novel
- Evan Smoak, Book 5
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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.
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Mission Critical
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
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Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land in an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the prisoner. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers, but what can one operative do against a trained team of assassins?
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My last Gray Man novel
- Écrit par lewis chandon le 2019-03-11
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Orphan X
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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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 box Orphan program, designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence assets - i.e. assassins. He was Orphan X. Evan broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear.
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Not your usual tough guy stuff
- Écrit par Tom le 2018-09-18
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Buy a Bullet
- An Orphan X Story
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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The Nowhere Man is a figure shrouded in secrecy - a near legendary figure who helps those lucky few who are given the means to reach out to him. Before he was the Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak was a highly trained government operative known to a few as Orphan X. This is the story of Smoak's first outing as the Nowhere Man, where after completing a mission in Northern California, he happens to spot a young woman at a coffee shop....
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Dead Eye
- A Gray Man Novel
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
- Durée: 14 h et 4 min
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Ex-CIA master assassin Court Gentry has always prided himself on his ability to disappear at will, to fly below the radar and exist in the shadows - to survive as the near-mythical Gray Man. But when he takes revenge upon a former employer who betrayed him, he exposes himself to something he’s never had to face before. A killer who is just like him. Code-named Dead Eye, Russell Whitlock is a graduate of the same ultra-secret Autonomous Asset Program that trained and once controlled Gentry.
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What a thriller!
- Écrit par Solome le 2018-04-24
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Do No Harm
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 16 h et 6 min
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Someone is stalking the UCLA Medical Center - a depraved madman who is preying upon the staff, particularly those who are young and female. No stranger to the terrible ravages of senseless violence, E.R. Chief Dr. David Spier must keep the emergency room running smoothly and efficiently, even as his terrified co-workers wonder who will be the next victim. But when the monster himself is dragged into the E.R. in handcuffs - hideously burned, suffering, and begging for mercy - the nightmare is far from over. It has only just begun.
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Nail biting suspence, nonstop action
- Écrit par fanceyd le 2019-08-12
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Agent Zero
- A Kent Steele Thriller
- Auteur(s): Jack Mars
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 11 h et 14 min
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In this much-anticipated new spy thriller series by Jack Mars, listeners are taken on an action thriller across Europe as presumed-CIA operative Kent Steele, hunted by terrorists, by the CIA, and by his own identity, must solve the mystery of who is after him, of the terrorists’ pending target - and of the beautiful woman he keeps seeing in his mind.
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Great Start to a Promising Series
- Écrit par Robert le 2019-11-08
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Red Metal
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney, Lieutenant Colonel Hunter Ripley Rawlings IV (USMC)
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 21 h et 21 min
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A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control over the world's hi-tech sector for generations to come. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy Pentagon job, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the commander of an American tank platoon....
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Riveting Story
- Écrit par Michael R. Webster le 2019-08-18
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Minutes to Burn
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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In the future, two scientists are accompanied by a team of Navy SEALs to position critical tectonic equipment on a deserted island in the Galapagos and find themselves immersed in a brutal war for survival that could determine the fate of the world.
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Not Hurwitz best. but the narrator is good.
- Écrit par JJ L. le 2019-09-24
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The Kill Clause
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Peter Friedman
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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Tim Rackley, a deputy U.S. marshal, watches helplessly as his daughter's killer walks free on a legal technicality. He is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options, a quest that leads him into the welcoming fold of "The Commission".
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Agent in Place
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
- Durée: 16 h et 26 min
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Fresh off his first mission back with the CIA, Court Gentry secures what seems like a cut-and-dried contract job: A group of expats in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam to get intel that could destabilize Azzam's regime. Court delivers Bianca Medina to the rebels, but his job doesn't end there. She soon reveals that she has given birth to a son, the only heir to Azzam's rule - and a potent threat to the Syrian president's powerful wife. Now, to get Bianca's cooperation, Court must bring her son out of Syria alive.
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A good read
- Écrit par Dave le 2019-09-02
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Last Shot
- Tim Rackley, Book 4
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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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.
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The Tower
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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Allander Atlasia is an infamous psychopath whose heinous crimes have earned him a lifetime stay at the Tower, the world's most extreme maximum-security prison. But after a brilliant and brutal escape, the criminal mastermind begins a killing spree that is intensely personal. Jade Marlow is an ex-FBI profiler and tracker whose fearlessness is only surpassed by the severity of his own inner demons. With a record of irrational behavior and a genius for putting himself into the mind of a criminal predator, he may be the one man diabolical enough to catch Atlasia.
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Loved the book
- Écrit par Cher Desmarais le 2019-06-18
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True Believer
- A Novel (Terminal List, Book 2)
- Auteur(s): Jack Carr
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 15 h et 44 min
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In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge.
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Took way to long to get going
- Écrit par Julie Gordon le 2019-09-05
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Blue Moon
- A Jack Reacher Novel
- Auteur(s): Lee Child
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
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“This is a random universe”, Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” This isn’t one of those times. Jack Reacher steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins.
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Jack Reacher is off the chain
- Écrit par Joe Cunningham le 2019-11-02
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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 in the Orphan Program is reaching out 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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- Lilianne
- 2019-02-14
The amazing Gregg Hurwitz and Scott Brick.
wonderfully made and performed. Orphan X come back soon please can't wait for next book. thank you
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- John Collicott
- 2019-04-03
Binged it until done
I do long distance running and spend credits on good books. I love this series and can't wait for the next one. A+
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- BillyBee 63
- 2019-11-19
Another Great Book!
I've long felt that Scott Brick was such an awesome narrator in the John Corey series by Nelson Demille. Oddly enough, Scott turned out to be my gateway drug into the world Orphan X. These books are excellent and I highly recommend them. I generally read the hard copy book and then listen to the audiobooks on my commute later. For the record, Scott narrates far better than I read, but I can live with that!
Gregg is one of my favourite authors and Scott Brick remains my favourite narrator by far.
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- April
- 2019-10-26
ok book, not superb
the writing jumped a lot to filler content but overall the story was interesting
narrator was good
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- Roxie Leigh
- 2019-03-28
Another cracking success from the dream-team!
Another cracking success from dream-team Gregg Hurwitz (words) and Scott Brick (voice). I love the Evan Smoak character and his struggle to atone, and the audiobook version is bloody excellent. He is larger-than-life with a quiet vulnerability and I want him to be my best friend!
I LOVED the character cameos from previous books, and both main story lines in this novel were a blast.
Whip smart, lightning pace, and funner than a room full of puppies. I can't recommend the Orphan X series enough. I was expecting book #4 to wrap up and end the series, but I get the sense there may be more on the way. At least I hope so! I'll be first in line if that's the case :)
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- Matt Jay
- 2019-02-06
Like the character but the story was terrible
This is a great character but the story was particularly bad. I found myself, every 30-45 minutes, thinking about giving up on this one.
Just kinda lame writing. Much of it seemed to have been written by a 14 year old kid.
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- shelley
- 2019-01-30
SMOAKIN' HOT!!!!
As the forth book in the Orphan X series this book does not disappoint. Gregg Hurwitz has written another winner with a super storyline. Although each of the books in this series can be listened to as a stand alone, I would suggest listening to them in the order which they were written for continuity and background info. This book starts out with a glimpse into Evan Smoak's beginnings. At the age of 19 he's sent out into the world as a trained killing machine. He's well trained but his handler has given him one thing 25 other well trained killing machines do not have, a conscious.
Fast forward and Evan is long out of the agency formed by the US government. The creator of the Orphan program is now the POTUS and he's eliminating all members of his anonymous (even to each other) team. He's using them to kill each other. Evan sees clearly what is going on and realizes he must take out the head for any of them to be safe.
Meanwhile in what has become a formula for the Orphan X series, while Evan is battling his demons he continues to be a beacon for people with no one else to turn to but in more trouble than they can handle.
So Evan is being pursued when he receives a call from Trevon, a young autistic man who has gotten himself on the wrong side of a drug cartel. They've murdered almost his entire family and are setting him up to take the fall.
This is book is so far the best in this series. I believe Hurwitz has raised his own bar so high, I can't begin to imagine what his next book will be!
Scott Brick's narration is as always amazing.
This book has my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATIONS!
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- Trudy Owens
- 2019-02-04
I was expecting more light
The title led me to believe that Evan could begin to reach for a normal life, you know coming out of the dark into the light, but that does not happen. There's still a long way to go.
As usual, there are 2 cases going on here, Evan's private vendetta as well as someone who called his private line. Evan is torn with accomplishing both tasks which require him to be on opposite sides of the country at the same time. I do not see how he allowed the bad guy to get away; it seems his client would still be in danger with that guy on the loose.
Then taking on a short, easy third case creates a rift between him and his possible normal life. However, it is in this third case that Evan vocalizes his innermost conviction-- that laws do not always bring justice, and that justice is what he is about. This is the divide between law and vigilantism. Something to think about.
Nevertheless, you will enjoy the Smoak and daggar business.
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- Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com
- 2019-01-30
A Time to Kill
Out of the Dark is the 4th fantastic book in the Evan Smoak series of page-turning adventures by The New York Times best-selling thriller writer Gregg Hurwitz. When I reviewd Orphan X a few years ago, I fell instantly in love with Gregg‘s work and I found myself backtracking through many of his previously released ”on the edge of your seat” thrillers, enjoying them very much and now I am glad to be able to say that I listened to all of the them.
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, but now, he is the one who puts the fear of God into his enemies.
The story follows Evan Smoak a.k.a The Nowhere Man. He is a skilled assassin trained in the, now defunct, off the books, Orphan program. Usually, Evan uses his knowledge, resources and talents to help desperate people that have nowhere else to turn, to find solutions for their, seemingly, unsolvable problems, but now everything is personal. The most deadly assassin in the World is hunting the most unavailable and well protected man in the World, but, at the same time, this man is hunting Evan as well...
Filled with non stop, over the top action, Out of the Dark is unputdownable and you’ll find yourself holding your breath from time to time as you cheer Evan on his quest. Gregg Hurwitz did a great job preparing this book for first timers to the series, but I highly suggest that you treat yourself to all other previously released books, as there are great and you will understand the story arc better.
As always, Scott Brick is the narrator of choice for almost all Gregg Hurwitz’s thrillers and he delivers another amazing performance in Out of the Dark. The entire book is filled with anxiety, tension, urgency, drama and paranoia. Scott will make you feel and live all of them. I found myself holding my breath, feeling anxious and, at some points, scared. I felt sad and angry, I smiled and almost cried… Out of the Dark is definitely better experienced as an audiobook, in the detriment of its paperback or Kindle Edition.
Scott Brick is one of the best narrators in the Audiobook Industry and every book recorded by him is great! He gives life to all the characters and, at the same time, he paints a vivid picture of everything happening in the story. The immersion is total, while his narration is mesmerizing and unparalleled.
If you like thrillers, if you like The Bourne Identity, One Shot, Back Blast, The English Spy and American Assassin, you’ll love what Gregg Hurwitz has done with Out of the Dark. I listened to the entire audiobook in the last 24 hours because I could not stop! Now, I will await the next adventure. The good news is that Mr. Hurwitz has signed a deal for three more Orphan X novels!
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- Wayne
- 2019-02-01
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WOW! OUT OF THE DARK was released 2 and 1/2 days ago and there are already 10 reviews and 96 ratings. The fourth novel in the Orphan X/Evan Smoak series is a clear winner. With this series Gregg Hurwitz places himself among the best of the espionage series authors. Evan Smoak is a unique character among espionage novel protagonists. It was narrator Scott Brick who originally led me to Hurwitz's novels, but Evan Smoak will keep me following this author.
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- donald h smith
- 2019-05-08
Beyond implausible<br />
The story is so implausible and the main character so over-the-top that is completely unbelievable and downright silly at times
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- Dubi
- 2019-11-27
... and Into the Smoak-y Twilight
You must read Hellbent, entry #3 in the Orphan X / Evan Smoak series, before Out of the Dark. You can read the first three in any order, and forthcoming #5 seems to be starting at a fresh new standalone point. But you need to have read Hellbent to understand why X and other Orphans have been targeted, by whom, and why X has in turn targeted him back. X plans one of the most dastardly deeds in modern American society, so you need to know in advance why you would root for him despite that. The details of the why are revealed in this entry, as you would expect.
The plot against the target is quite implausible, but that's the point of this type of book, isn't it, to see an implausible hero pull off an implausible stunt. I have two minor quibbles with it -- 1, the Nowhere Man side plot doesn't intersect with the main plot, as it has in previous Orphan X books, and 2. the final scene of the scheme kind of comes out of left field, and happens so quickly that I had already decided that with so little time left in the book that it was going to carry over into the next book.
Neither of these quibbles diminish the experience all that much -- from five stars to four or four and half stars. Ditto the lack of progress in Evan's interaction with the real world. After taking a couple of big leaps forward in Hellbent, Evan treads water at best, maybe even takes a step backwards -- another reason to have already read Hellbent, to understand that this is part of Evan's evolution, not a frustrating lack of character development. And interestingly, the Nowhere Man thread sheds some light on Evan's personality dysfunction.
Gregg Hurwitz has said that the initial idea of this series was to take a Bond or Bourne type of character and put him in real world social situations, where the expert covert operative becomes awkwardly inept. Of course, it has been done before, most notably in Dexter (socially awkward vigilante Dex -- rhymes with socially awkward vigilante Orphan X), as well as Alias, and I'm sure there are others. But it works nonetheless, though it must move forward in the next entry for it to mean something.
Seems like Scott Brick is revered by listeners as the voice of Evan Smoak, and he is contractually obligated to continue voicing this series. I may be in the minority, but I still have a hard time listening to him. At 1.5x speed, I'll concede that he is not bad in this series. Or maybe that's just me rationalizing the fact that I have to continue to listen to him if I want to continue reading this series in audio.
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- speck
- 2019-07-18
Good story, not a great book
I've been a fan of the series, so I was really looking forward to a culmination of sorts between a couple of that characters. That was delivered, and it was a good story, it just didn't have the sizzle or chemistry (or magic) of what made the others in the series so special. Scott Brick's nuanced delivery is outstanding, however. One of the best in the business.
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- nightvision
- 2019-03-28
Not the best, but better than most
this wasn't the best book in the series. It's still a good addition. Will definitely pick up the next one.
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- Michael J. Herzog
- 2019-02-13
A bit boring for me
I've read/listened to a lot of the orphan X stories and generally find them enjoyable. Maybe I'm just getting tired of the formula. I felt like this one meandered a bit and I found myself getting very bored. There were bits where the action was great and there were stretches and story lines where I simply didn't care. I could not get through it.
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- ITS-TONY
- 2019-01-31
Wow, Orphan X strikes again
The initial reviews of the pre-release was starting to scare me. I wondered if there could seriously be a bad OX book. They were dead wrong, this book is another incredible thrill ride of a story. Orphan X is my favorite and I listened so fast because I NEEDED to know. Now I am sad that I finished it. Buy this book, buy this series!! G. Hurwitz - thank you for your books, I enjoy them all and cannot wait to start another one. Scott Brick - Best freakin audio book narrator. Nobody, I mean absolutely nobody can touch you.
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