Out of the Dark: An Orphan X Novel - Gregg Hurwitz

Category: Adults, Suspense, Thriller, Violence
Language: English
Keywords: Assissans Black Ops Orphan A

Written by Gregg Hurwitz
Read by Scott Brick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Series: Evan Smoak, Book 4
Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 01-29-19
Publisher: Brilliance Audio

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.

Kirkus Reviews says - The plotting is clever, the action is nearly constant and usually over-the-top, and X has something resembling a moral core. Bad guys get what bad guys deserve, and we don’t need no stinkin’ due process.Hurwitz fans will certainly enjoy this latest entry in the series, while those unfamiliar with it might like to read the books in order. They’ll be hooked.

This is Scott Brick as I have never heard him. Not my style of book but reviews are good.