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The Nowhere Man
- An Orphan X Novel (Evan Smoak, Book 2)
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 12 h et 12 min
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Orphan X
- Evan Smoak, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 11 h et 15 min
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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 an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail.
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Fun and fast paced
- Écrit par Nic le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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The Gray Man
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
- Durée: 11 h et 11 min
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Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man—a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
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sad laughable
- Écrit par Robert Pozer le 2019-02-27
Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
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You're Next
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 14 h et 1 min
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Mike Wingate, abandoned by his father at four and raised in foster care, is finally living the life he always dreamed of - he's happily married with a precocious 8-year-old daughter, and his construction company is about to finish a "green" housing development that will secure a solid future for them all. But then something from his own past, a past he doesn't even remember, comes back to visit terror upon him and his family.
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Great story
- Écrit par leon heidema le 2021-03-19
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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The Survivor
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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Nate Overbay, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and ALS, goes to an 11th-floor bank and climbs out the bathroom window onto the ledge, ready to end it all. But as he’s steeling himself to jump, a crew of gunmen bursts into the bank and begins viciously shooting employees and customers. With nothing to lose, Nate climbs back inside, confronts the robbers, and with his military training, starts taking them out, one by one. The last man standing leaves Nate with a cryptic warning: “He will make you pay in ways you can’t imagine.” Soon enough, Nate learns what this means.
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terrible book
- Écrit par peace seeking lady le 2017-11-11
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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".
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Trust No One
- With Bonus Audio Short Story, "The Awakening," a Prelude
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist - someone Nick has never heard of - has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he’ll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago.
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Orphan X
- Evan Smoak, Book 1
- 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 an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail.
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Fun and fast paced
- Écrit par Nic le 2018-09-15
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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The Gray Man
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Jay Snyder
- Durée: 11 h et 11 min
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Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man—a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.
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sad laughable
- Écrit par Robert Pozer le 2019-02-27
Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
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You're Next
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 14 h et 1 min
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Mike Wingate, abandoned by his father at four and raised in foster care, is finally living the life he always dreamed of - he's happily married with a precocious 8-year-old daughter, and his construction company is about to finish a "green" housing development that will secure a solid future for them all. But then something from his own past, a past he doesn't even remember, comes back to visit terror upon him and his family.
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Great story
- Écrit par leon heidema le 2021-03-19
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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The Survivor
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 13 h et 4 min
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Nate Overbay, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and ALS, goes to an 11th-floor bank and climbs out the bathroom window onto the ledge, ready to end it all. But as he’s steeling himself to jump, a crew of gunmen bursts into the bank and begins viciously shooting employees and customers. With nothing to lose, Nate climbs back inside, confronts the robbers, and with his military training, starts taking them out, one by one. The last man standing leaves Nate with a cryptic warning: “He will make you pay in ways you can’t imagine.” Soon enough, Nate learns what this means.
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terrible book
- Écrit par peace seeking lady le 2017-11-11
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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".
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Trust No One
- With Bonus Audio Short Story, "The Awakening," a Prelude
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist - someone Nick has never heard of - has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he’ll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago.
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Tell No Lies
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 12 h et 39 min
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The scion of an old-money San Francisco family, Daniel Brasher left his well-paying, respectable money-manager position to marry his community organizer wife and work at a job he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled violent offenders. One night he finds an envelope - one intended for someone else that was placed in his office mailbox by accident. Inside is an unsigned piece of paper, a handwritten note that says, "Admit what you've done or you will bleed for it."
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Great story!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-02-19
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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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
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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The Tower
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 12 h et 21 min
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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
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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Tier One
- Tier One Thrillers, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
- Durée: 11 h et 39 min
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John Dempsey's life - as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper - is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice.
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Great narration and really good story
- Écrit par Stuart Rankin le 2020-10-01
Auteur(s): Brian Andrews, Autres
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They're Watching
- Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble, then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Finally, DVDs start being delivered to his house – DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden around and within their house. Then the e-mails start, and someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures it's the offer of a lifetime.
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What A Ride... Great Book.
- Écrit par Lisa Blais le 2020-01-23
Auteur(s): Gregg Hurwitz
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The Killer
- Victor the Assassin Series, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Tom Wood
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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Meet Victor. He's an assassin - a man with no past and no surname. He lives alone. He operates alone. He's given a job; he takes out the target; he gets paid. He's The Killer. Victor arrives in Paris to perform a standard kill and collect for an anonymous client. He completes it with trademark efficiency - only to find himself in the middle of an ambush and fighting for his life.
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New Author
- Écrit par PE anonymous le 2023-02-08
Auteur(s): Tom Wood
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Termination Orders
- Auteur(s): Leo J. Maloney
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 9 h et 23 min
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In the tradition of bestsellers by Robert Ludlum and Vince Flynn, Termination Orders introduces Dan Morgan, a retired black-ops agent who must return to duty to thwart a deadly international conspiracy.
Once a trained killer for the CIA, Dan Morgan has built a new life for himself. But when he receives a desperate plea from his former black-ops partner - reportedly killed in a foreign battle zone - he flies in to help. It should be a routine mission, extracting a human asset from the region, but it’s not - it’s an ambush.
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Great story
- Écrit par Karen le 2022-05-18
Auteur(s): Leo J. Maloney
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The Terminal List
- A Thriller
- Auteur(s): Jack Carr
- Narrateur(s): Ray Porter
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On his last combat deployment, Lt. Cmdr. James Reece's entire team was killed in an ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he's learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward revenge.
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Reality Check! Well written and read
- Écrit par Josh le 2018-09-13
Auteur(s): Jack Carr
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The Russian
- A Thriller
- Auteur(s): Ben Coes
- Narrateur(s): Ari Fliakos
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Ruthless, clever, and unbelievably violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the US, and law enforcement has been unable to stem the tide. When a powerful Russian mob family declares war by publicly executing two high-profile American politicians, the message is unmistakable - opposition will be met with overwhelming deadly force. With no other viable options, the President creates a clandestine assassinations team to find and eliminate the unreachable men running this deadly criminal operation.
Auteur(s): Ben Coes
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Killing Floor
- Jack Reacher, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Lee Child
- Narrateur(s): Dick Hill
- Durée: 17 h et 47 min
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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
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Sleepless in Vancouver
- Écrit par BilldeMooy le 2020-01-19
Auteur(s): Lee Child
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Armored
- Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
- Narrateur(s): Adam Gold
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Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent — a professional bodyguard — and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is, he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg.
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Jammed packed with action and surprise twists
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-09-10
Auteur(s): Mark Greaney
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American Assassin
- Auteur(s): Vince Flynn
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 11 h et 44 min
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Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world...and then tragedy struck.
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better then the movie
- Écrit par Brad Kay le 2018-09-19
Auteur(s): Vince Flynn
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“Will keep readers on the edge of their seats.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Who is THE NOWHERE MAN?
He is spoken about only in whispers. He comes to those in greatest need of his protection. There is no enemy he cannot fight. He lives by his own code. He takes no prisoners. His name is Evan Smoak.
Taken from a group home when he was young, Evan was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he used everything he’d learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But now, his new life has been interrupted by a surprise attack from an unlikely source. Captured, drugged, and spirited off to a remote location, Evan finds himself heavily guarded from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage, but they do not know that they’re dealing with one of the deadliest, most resourceful men on earth.
“Superb on all levels and a must-read for all thriller fans.” - Providence Journal
“A masterpiece of suspense and thrills.” - Associated Press on Orphan X
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-01-10
Disappointing follow up
I really enjoyed the first book in the series, but this one sputters through the first 3/4 with starts and stops, and a cliched Bond villain who (spoiler alert) is all powerful, unbelievably sadistic, peculiar in his fetishes, and yet inexplicably refuses to so much as handcuff Evan despite his constant attempts to escape and killing of henchmen. These books are read for escapism, to be sure, but one can only suspend disbelief to a point, particularly if the payoff is so weak. Still better than Reacher, so there’s that.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-11-30
Not as good as the first, but still entertaining
The narrator did an excellent job once again. However, I didn't find the story as captivating as the first novel.
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- Pedrobarbieri
- 2018-10-25
Exhilarating!
Greg Hurwitz keeps the excellence of the first book in another thrilling story. Lots of twists and turns and unexpected events makes this book another amazing Orphan X novel. You won't be disappointed!
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- robert patterson
- 2018-09-16
Orphan x
Loved the story line and can’t wait for the new book.i would recommend this series to anyone who likes adventure
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- Vera
- 2017-12-08
Great Series
If you are looking for a book you can count on for smart intrigue and action you will enjoy this novel. Cool character with a distinct personality that is fun to follow through his missions.
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- Eric P.
- 2022-12-25
On and on
I agree with other reviews, this one is not the best in the series. The story just seems to drag on and on. He escapes, gets caught, escape, gets caught, escape, gets caught, and on it goes. After a while it becomes redundant.
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- pnogas
- 2022-11-22
better than the first one
A few things I have qualms about, but overall an engaging and interesting story that keeps you engaged.
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- Langer MD
- 2021-08-18
Cartoonish.. but A Genuine Blast
The Action-Thriller clichés in this book are honestly mindblowing. Gregg Hurwitz's hero is kidnapped by an Honest-to-God Bond Villain (complete with unimagineable wealth, cultured arrogance, fancy suits, gold-toothed henchmen, and a freakishly powerful bodyguard), while a sex-obsessed sultry femme-fatale named Candy McClure (I'm not kidding) chases him down.. and a genuine Soap Opera-styled "Faked-Death" Deus Ex Machina is chosen for a major plot resolution. The eyerolling in 'Nowhere Man' is annoyingly frequent. Compounding the problem, the author takes this stuff far too seriously - writing as though his kids' lives depend on the hero succeeding instead of just having fun.
That said, this stuff is seriously entertaining:
•Hurwitz's action sequences are plausible, described vividly, and well-paced.
•The Tech descriptions (weapons and comm-tech) are captivating for a geek like me to immerse myself in.
•There is a lot of violence without unnecessary gore. It's just enough to get the adrenaline flowing (reminding me of how I feel after the memorable scenes in 'Gladiator').
Hurwitz could easily let this book slip into "ludicrous" territory.. but admirably holds back just enough to keep this adventure tolerable.
Scott Brick is.. Scott Brick. A little smarmy; a little plodding; a little melodramatic. His reading is professional - but best consumed at 1.15X playback speed.
You definitely need to set logic aside in this Evan Smoak tale to enjoy it.. but if you can, it warrants 6 stars out of 10. It's definitely a weak entry in the series - and unnecessary for enjoying other installments (you can take it or leave it) - but it's a carnival ride of a story. If you're new to the series, try 'Orphan X' (Book One) or 'Hellbent' (Book Three) for better examples of what Hurwitz can offer - but if you are already following the character (or occasionally enjoy some effective pulp), this entry is worth a Credit.
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- Stuart Rankin
- 2020-10-06
Brilliant storytelling
Truly edge of your seat stuff. Really sinister bad guys, great pacing of reading and fabulous performance from the narrator.
I'm hooked!
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- Colin Myers
- 2019-06-28
Awesome book
I usually only listen to my audio books on the way home from work. This book had me turning it on whenever I got in my car. Great storyline and a thrill ride the whole time. Highly recommend it.
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- SO
- 2017-01-23
This book is awful!
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I really enjoyed the first Orphan X book, it was well paced and action packed. This book was a real drag to get through!!! I can't stress that enough! It has an eventful beginning and fast paced ending, but 80% of the book is just excruciatingly dull and pointless. The main character is essentially locked in a room for the vast majority of the book, every chapter beginning the same way..."Evan wakes up... still locked in the room..".
I'd suggest skipping this one. It's infuriating and more trouble than its worth IMHO.
Beyond the fact of the majority of the novel being boring as heck, it felt as though all the negative aspects of the first novel have been amplified. The dramatic moralizing from the first book was really dialed up. My eyes are tired from their constant rolling.
If you do tackle it you'll be fine listening to the first hour of the book and skipping to the last hour. There's not much going on in between.
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- shelley
- 2017-01-19
I'm a fan & ready for book #3!!!!
I really enjoyed this book. I'm so glad that Gregg Hurwitz has decided to write a series again. I have enjoyed all of his other books and wish that some of the characters would have gone on to other books because I thought they were so interesting (like Shep from Your Next).
Anyway this book is action from beginning to end. Some of the are a little out there as far as Evan's improvisations but I've said it before about other series, of you like Greaney, Taylor, Thor , Coes and others of this genre then I think Evan Smoak is right up there with the best of them!! The book is great and fills in a lot of what was left out of the first book.
I thought it ended with a fantastic cliff hanger and I can't wait for the third book in this series to be released.
Scott Brick, as always gave an excellent performance.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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- John
- 2017-01-24
Liked the original, moaned over the second!
What would have made The Nowhere Man better?
A more believable plot relative to Evan's supposed skill set. Stop with the constant melodrama especially during captivity; this portion of the book droned on and on and could have been trimmed by half.
Would you be willing to try another one of Scott Brick’s performances?
The jury is out!
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The last two and a half hours of the book were more in keeping with what I was expecting.
Any additional comments?
A highly trained warrior, an expert internet hacker with vast layers of anonymity , and having sophisticated international banking skills gets trapped by a FEDEX delivery? Really? "Expect the unexpected", yet time and again Evan walks into the unexpected! Piling misery upon misery upon misery, the narrator at times made me want to cry out "ENOUGH"! Shorten the book, get to the point and get the job done next time.
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- Wayne
- 2017-01-18
I strongly prefer Orphan X to Nowhere Man!
Nowhere Man still earns a 3+ stars. Orphan X was my pick for 2016 suspense thriller of the year. I hope that author Gregg Hurwitz will return to the Evan Smoak of the first novel in the series when he releases the third Evan Smoak novel.
Nowhere man is a good suspense thriller, but it loses credibility when prisoner Evan Smoak always finds the right response to the many desperate situations he encounters. The one situation that causes me the largest credibility issue is when Jack had the medical professionals take Evan's body temperature down to 50 degrees F. and replace his blood with a blood-like material in order to save him.
I regret that I cannot give Nowhere Man my recommendation. I find the dropoff in quality disappointing. Scott Brick's narration is stellar as usual.
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- DMantei
- 2017-05-21
Very long ride to a let down.
What would have made The Nowhere Man better?
Take the entire middle of the book and remove it. Then rewrite it and make it to where it is,
1. More believable and more Smoak-like
2. If Smoak is ex-government as claimed- there are no less than 6 geo-synchronous satellites over that area at any given 6 hour period. His whatever phone would have told him that.....so would the author...
3. Limit the amount of failures.... it became so rote that I was laughing in my car and I do not believe the author's intent was to have the reader laughing at the protagonist's pain.
What was most disappointing about Gregg Hurwitz’s story?
The plot seems jittery and the past seems to not BE the past. There is one setting in the book that gets so quicksand like that the book seems to have moved in, set up utilities, did a change of address and told all of its relatives that it has decided to stay a while.
One thing that really did it in for me on the book was the idea that Smoak is supposedly this unbeatable type of Mitch Rapp-esque warrior/operative and he gets worked over by a septenarian drug dealer with a vampiric bent??? Seems to be a bit bent.
What didn’t you like about Scott Brick’s performance?
Oh my goodness that man's voice would make me walk over ten miles of broken glass in bare feet just to get a pair of ear plugs to stop his whisper!
He should be outlawed. He should only be allowed to read for public consumption with verified diagnosis of laryngitis or strep throat.
What character would you cut from The Nowhere Man?
I would change Renee. David the gay guy seemed overly superfluous, Dax the mute? the narcos...why did they have to be narcos? seemed to be pick and choose to me- but hey, artistic license.
Any additional comments?
I read the first one. I thought the second one would be ok, too. I will not read any third.
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- MM
- 2017-02-01
Note to Self: Great Book 1. Not Great Book 2.
Hugely disappointed. I won't rant and rave here but I will not be buying Book 3 even though I am curious based on the ending of Book 2. I listened and more than 1.0 speed, because I sort of wanted to know what happened, but nearly stopped and asked for a refund. Oh well. On to the next book. P.S. Scott Brick tried but it didn't work for him either.
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- Tim
- 2017-07-06
Gregg needs to learn that less is more
What I mean is that Gregg puts to much conflict, drama and tension into the book.
Take the Expendable series. You watch it knowing it is just going to be a bunch of crazy stupid fighting, and you like it. It is expected and kind of fun. I think the Orphan X series had better potential, but then maybe there are a lot of others who liked it. But there were problems.
I believe there was only a slight reference to a non-combative or non-distressed person in the entire book. At some point, less than half way through I found myself saying "here we go again' another situation for Evan, he probably wont get out of this one yet, but he will survive. There were just too many of those situations. Gregg needs to find a way to fit in some normalcy, some people who aren't on one extreme of good or evil. I got to be honest, I started skipping chapters just because I was tired of the same thing happening again and again. This will probably be my last Gregg Hurwitz, it will certainly be my last Orphan X which is a little of a let down... such potential. One last comment, the narrator Scott Brick puts a little to much drama into ALL the situations. If he had toned it down that might have helped.
Gregg, you have talent, put it to good use.
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- Gregory Shropshire
- 2017-01-27
Too Much
I enjoyed Orphan X, but this was just too much. Book took too long and I felt like stopping several times. I felt like the author was asking me to forgive too much with regards to story line and events. The narrating was great as usual by Scott Brick.
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- Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com
- 2017-01-20
Another Fantastic Thriller from Gregg and Scott
Would you consider the audio edition of The Nowhere Man to be better than the print version?
Yes. Scott Brick is fantastic!
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Yes, fast paced, twists and turns.
Which scene was your favorite?
Can't say. Don't want to spoil...
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes
Any additional comments?
The Nowhere Man is the 2nd 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 last year 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.
Actually, after I was done listening to The Nowhere Man I went on Audible and bought The Crime Writer, wanting more awesomeness from Gregg Hurwitz.
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 needs saving.
In The Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak tries to help thoes who are truly desperate and by doing so he falls into a devious trap. He is drugged, captured and kidnaped, he suffers unspeakable things at the hands of his assailants, but the only thing that keeps him going is a promise he made to himself to rescue an innocent girl trapped in a shipping container. Evan has to escape, has to save her, but at every step his efforts are in vane and his skills are cleverly neutralized by his ruthless captors.
As if he didn’t have enough on his plate already, his past as Orphan X comes to haunt him when a group of highly trained assassins from the off the books government sponsored Orphan Initiative come knocking, wanting his head. This is all I’m willing to tell you about the plot and I hope I haven’t spoiled anything major…
The Nowhere Man is filled with non stop, over the top action and you’ll find yourself holding your breath from time to time as you cheer on 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 both books as there are great and you will understand the story arc better.
Gregg Hurwitz is a fantastic writer and although I liked Orphan X more than The Nowhere Man, I’m really glad that he decided to bring us a series. As I said above, the action is non stop and electrifying, the pace is brutal, the plot is very well thought out and the end result is very satisfying. Evan Smoak is relentless in achieving his objective, he is a live weapon, a beast, a trained killer that want’s to do good but is forced to bring Hell on Earth in order to escape and to keep his promise. He is Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher wrapped in one tough shell. If you mess with him, you are going to pay! I liked that we got more insights into Evan‘s past, into his childhood and into the events that surrounded the Orphan program.
The Nowhere Man is brought to life with skill and passion as an audiobook by award-winning actor and voice over artist Scot Brick. As always, Scott delivers a perfect performance, giving life to each character with different voices and accents. Now he is clinically detached Evan, than a scared little boy, or a hopeless innocent girl and after that a ruthless drug dealer. Scott reads, acts, he builds the action, he keeps the frantic pace, he suffers, he cries, he is angry, or funny, he lives every moment of the story and by doing so he creates another layer of immersion for the already riveted listener.
If you liked Orphan X or any other book by Gregg Hur witz you have to get The Nowhere Man as soon as possible! I would have listened to it in one stay, but at some point I had to sleep… Evan Smoak will be back for a 3rd adventure and I dare to hope there are much more to come after that one. Gregg Hurwitz is a terrific author and I can’t get enough of his work, plus he seems to like Scott Brick as his narrator and that can only make me more eager for his next book!
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- Celeste
- 2017-02-21
Whiny, Whiny, Why me....
What disappointed you about The Nowhere Man?
The author needs to determine if his protagonist is a super hero created from his past or a boring, pitiful victim. This story line was not entertaining...
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