Out of the Dark (Orphan X, #4)

Posted on 25 December 2017 by Gregg Hurwitz

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. Free Read Out of the Dark (Orphan X, #4) [ By ] Gregg Hurwitz [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr There are no good guys There are no bad guys There s only what needs to be done Nobody writes thrillers like Gregg Hurwitz, particularly his Orphan X series What an incredible group of books, full of pulse quickening suspense, whip cracking action, and at their heart, a flawed yet amazingly appealing protagonist Like Dexter or other anti heroes, Evan Smoak is someone you root for wholeheartedly even if you re troubled by what actions he must take.When Evan was 12 years old, he was taken fr There are no good guys There are no bad guys There s only what needs to be done Nobody writes thrillers like Gregg Hurwitz, particularly his Orphan X series What an incredible group of books, full of pulse quickening suspense, whip cracking action, and at their heart, a flawed yet amazingly appealing protagonist Like Dexter or other anti heroes, Evan Smoak is someone you root for wholeheartedly even if you re troubled by what actions he must take.When Evan was 12 years old, he was taken from a group home and trained to become part of the Orphan program, a deep deep cover operation that created intelligence assets for the U.S., assets that could be used to create all kinds of mayhem and become assassins Evan spent a number of years following orders across the globe as Orphan X, but after a while, he decided he needed to b...This is the fourth novel in the Orphan X series Again, you could read it as a stand alone, but I wouldn t recommend it Evan Smoak was plucked out of an orphanage at the age of 12 and trained to be able to kill anyway you could possibly imagine while remaining totally off the grid The elements of an Orphan X novel is that Evan Smoak, aka Orphan X, aka The Nowhere Man, has a lot on his plate that mysteriously he never needs to get sleep for In this one, he has to kill the President of the Unit This is the fourth novel in the Orphan X series Again, you could read it as a stand alone, but I wouldn t recommend it Evan Smoak was plucked out of an orphanage at the age of 12 and trained to be able to kill anyway you could possibly imagine while remaining totally off the grid The elements of an Orphan X novel is that Evan Smoak, aka Orphan X, aka The Nowhere Man, has a lot on his plate that mysteriously he never needs to get sleep for In this one, he has to kill the President of the United States, a selfish man with a history of underhanded dealings Evan has to do this while being hunted by another Orphan who wants him dead Also, as the Nowhere Man, he helps out someone who desperately needs his help, in this case a kid who s on the spectr...This was headed for 5 stars until a bit of excessive bad guy violence on the good people , prevented it I preferbad guys getting what they deserve in a righteous pounding, instead of the decimation of innocents This is a continuing theme in the previous 3 Orphan stories as well Still, 8 of 10 stars3.5 starsIn this 4th book in the Orphan X series Evan Smoak also known as Orphan X plans to kill the President of the United States, Jonathan Bennett The book can be read as a standalone, but familiarity with the series is a plus When Evan Smoak was a child Jonathan Bennett then working for the Department of Defense oversaw a black ops program that trained orphans to be highly skilled assassins The children were stripped of their names and designated alphabetically Orphan A, Or 3.5 starsIn this 4th book in the Orphan X series Evan Smoak also known as Orphan X plans to kill the President of the United States, Jonathan Bennett The book can be read as a standalone, but familiarity with the series is a plus When Evan Smoak...The fourth Orphan X novel works well as a stand alone story even though the third book does lead into it Orphan X was part of a government program to raise orphans to be assassins After a time, his conscience got the better of him He went off on his own as the Nowhere Man, setting up a service to help those in dire straights with nowhere left to turn to In this novel, he s also being hunted by the President He used to be in charge of the Orphan progr...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 ...Note this is Book 4 of the Orphan X series but I had not read the previous 3 and was great as a stand alone although am going to buy and read the other 3 now Having seen the authors name for the last few years and the Orphan X books I now, after reading this, regret not taking notice before and for it taking me so long to discover this series Out Of The Dark deals with Orphan X s personal mission to kill the President , this is due to things the President did in his murky past that ultimatel Note this is Book 4 of the Orphan X series but I had not read the previous 3 and was great as a stand alone although am going to buy and read the other 3 now Having seen the authors name for the last few years and the Orphan X books I now, after reading this, regret not taking notice before and for it taking me so long to discover this series Out Of The Dark deals with Orphan X s personal mission to kill the President , this is due to things the P...He s your last, best hope, but who can Evan Smoak turn to when he is out of options and his life is on the line Orphan X is back and he is evenlarger than life,seemingly invincible, yet evenvulnerable and human And He Is A Target.OUT OF THE DARK is Gregg Hurwitz s latest razor sharp tale of Evan Smoak, a product of a life of being trained to kill, no questions asked, but somewhere along the line, Orphan X began to ask questions, and he became a threat to be eliminated He s your last, best hope, but who can Evan Smoak turn to when he is out of options and his life is on the line Orphan X is back and he is evenlarger than life,seemingly invincible, yet evenvulnerable and human And He Is A Target.OUT OF THE DARK is Gregg Hurwitz s latest razor sharp tale of Evan Smoak, a product of a life of being trained to kill, no questions asked, but somewhere along the line, Orphan X began to ask questions, and he became a threat to be eliminated Until then, he is the last resort for those in need, he has found his moral compass and he is looking to pay it forward to those responsible for what he became Vengeance will be his Non stop action, explosive tension and through it all, Evan still finds time for hope and love, if only he could get free of the clutches of his past, but it doesn t stop him from seeing to another orphan s future freedom Evan is an over a...Update 3 2 19 Having just finished Orphan X 3.5 The Intern, which was awful, I am upgrading this to 4 stars I realized that I liked the current stories in this book, and my earlier lower rating attributable to the old assassination story see below , which lacked the context and intrigue of the greats, like John Le Carre or Len Deighton.Evan Smoak Orphan X and President Bennett are out for blood each other s, stemming from Orphan X s first job, an assassination in Eastern Europe pinned on Update 3 2 19 Having just finished Orphan X 3.5 The Intern, which was awful, I am upgrading this to 4 stars I realized that I liked the current stories in this book, and my earlier lower rating attributable to the old assassination story see below , which lacked the context and intrigue of the greats, like John Le Carre or Len Deighton.Evan Smoak Orphan X and Pr...4.5 starsOut of the Dark is the fourth book in the Orphan X series and my favorite since the first in the series I loved the first book and its balance between the Orphan Program aspects of the story and Evan s constant urge to atone for his past Out of the Dark achieves the same balance, and both of his cases in this book are highly entertaining and race along to the fabulous and highly satisfying ending I particularly enjoyed learning about the multitude of ways the U.S president is protec 4.5 starsOut of the Dark is the fourth book in the Orphan X series and m...

25 December 2017

Gregg Hurwitz