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*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse.
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 his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn't interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.
Aragon Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas. He's also the patron of the local area--supplying employment in legitimate operations, providing help to the helpless, rough justice to the downtrodden, and a future to a people normally with little hope. He's complicated--a not completely good man, who does bad things for often good reasons. However, for all his money and power, he is helpless when one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his innocent eighteen year old daughter, spiriting her away into the armored complex that is their headquarters in Mexico. With no other way to rescue his daughter, he turns to The Nowhere Man.
Now not only must Evan figure out how to get into the impregnable fortress of a heavily armed, deeply paranoid cartel leader, but he must decide if he should help a very bad man--no matter how just the cause.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In bestseller Hurwitz's excellent seventh Orphan X novel (after 2021's Prodigal Son), Aragón Urrea, a South Texas drug lord, approaches former black ops assassin Evan Smoak (aka the Nowhere Man), who assists people in seemingly hopeless situations as a way of paying penance for past sins. Urrea's 18-year-old daughter, Anjelina, has been kidnapped by a ruthless Mexican cartel. Despite doubts about helping a criminal like Urrea, Smoak agrees to try to rescue Anjelina. Along the way to the satisfying resolution, Smoak is forced to scrutinize his own life, in which he has remained distant from those most important to him--in particular, love interest Mia Hall, a district attorney and single mother who's faced with a life-threatening surgery, and Joey Morales, a 16-year-old hacker extraordinaire who has become a surrogate daughter of sorts. Nonstop action and relentless pacing are matched by deeply philosophical and powerfully emotional undertones. Unlike comparable series that tend to lose steam after several installments, this series just gets better as it evolves. 200,000-copy announced first printing. Agent: Lisa Erbach Vance, Aaron Priest Literary. (Feb.)
Kirkus Review
The iconoclastic Orphan X penetrates a Mexican cartel to rescue a South Texas beauty. When his daughter, Anjelina, is snatched from her 18th birthday party, drug kingpin Aragón Urrea reaches out to assassin Evan Smoak, aka Orphan X. It's pure luck that he's able to reach the righteous, reclusive killer, who's in seclusion after a harrowing free-fall escapade. Aragón's heavily guarded compound clearly indicates that he's no innocent, and the first tense meeting of the two powerful men simmers with the threat of violence, but stoic Evan has looked death squarely in the eyes many times before. The receipt of a cleanly decapitated head via FedEx--belonging not to Anjelina but to a man Aragón has undercover with the kidnappers--raises the stakes exponentially for the distraught Aragón, who assigns henchmen Kiki and Special Ed to assist Evan. Hurwitz gives his seventh Orphan X thriller an epic scope, writing with verve and color whether he's relating the pre-coital banter between Evan and his neighbor Mia Hall, documenting the tangled search for Anjelina, or depicting her gritty fight for survival, to which he devotes a generous portion of the tale. His pace is leisurely but impactful, full of genre set pieces, fight scenes and chase scenes, and tense showdowns. Each member of the large cast of supporting series characters, developed over previous installments, gets a turn onstage. The deeper Evan goes, the more challenges he faces, including his considerable doubts about the propriety of helping a character as disreputable as Aragón. Deadly sparks fly when the Nowhere Man--that is, Orphan X--meets the novel's archvillain, the Dark Man. A crackerjack thriller that briskly enhances the legend of Orphan X. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Evan Smoak, Orphan X, aka the Nowhere Man, explodes into action in the seventh installment in this exciting series. This time, the former U.S. government assassin's client isn't the usual sort of downtrodden, helpless individual who usually seeks Evan out. Instead, it's a drug dealer, but not just any drug dealer. Aragon Urrea is a dangerous and mostly despicable person, but he does have his own sense of honor, and he loves his daughter, who has been kidnapped by a rival cartel. Can Evan put aside his personal feelings and help a man recover his daughter? The Orphan X series has always been about moral ambiguity and the razor-thin line separating right from wrong, but this novel takes Evan even farther down the dark road than he's been before. The question is: How far will Evan be able to go before darkness overwhelms him completely? Evan Smoak is one of thrillerdom's most compelling characters, and Hurwitz keeps revealing new aspects of his complex personality. Another sure-fire hit.
