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Orphan X
Oct 18, 2024 10:22 PM

Author:Gregg Hurwitz

Orphan X

'Outstanding in every way' Lee Child

'The page turned of the season' The Times

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'Do you need my help?'

It was the first question he asked.

They called him when they had nowhere else to turn.

As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage.

Raised and trained in a top secret programme, he was sent to bad places to do things the government denied ever happened.

Then he broke with the programme, using what he'd learned to vanish. Now he helps the desperate and deserving.

But someone's on his trail.

Someone who knows his past and believes that the boy once known as Orphan X must die . . .

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'Read this book. You will thank me later' David Baldacci

'A rival to reacher' The Independent

If you loved Orphan X, read the gripping follow-up The Nowhere Man and brand new sequel Out of the Dark!

Reviews

Orphan X blows the doors off most thrillers I've read and catapults the readers on a cat-and-mouse that feels like a missile launch. Read this book. You will thank me later

—— David Baldacci

Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time!

—— Tess Gerritsen

Memorable as hell

—— James Patterson

The page-turner of the season is Orphan X . . . Wonderful

—— Times

Orphan X is his best yet - a real celebration of all the strengths Gregg Hurwitz brings to a thriller

—— Lee Child

Orphan X is the most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity ... A new thriller superstar is born!

—— Robert Crais

Orphan X is most exciting new series character since Jack Reacher. A page-turning masterpiece of suspense

—— Jonathan Kellerman

A new series character to rival Reacher . . . anyone reading Orphan X won't be surprised that a cadre of peers, from Tess Gerritsen to Lee Child, have lined up to praise it

—— Independent

A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series

—— Daily Mail

'There is a pristine classicism to Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X, which borrows from Robert Ludlum and superhero lore to bring us Evan Smoak, adopted as a child by a shadowy figure called Jack and trained to be an assassin as part of a secret US government scheme. When the Orphan programme (as it is known) is disbanded, Evan moves to California and devotes himself to good works - taking out a slum-landlord paedophile cop, for example, after his victim calls Evan's special number. However, his meticulously compartmentalised life makes him vulnerable . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places. But it wouldn't work half as well if we didn't feel Evan's pain and share his panic as the worst-case scenario unfolds: another former Orphan, with a less noble agenda, seems to be hunting him. Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a modern master

—— Guardian

Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense

—— Harlan Coben

Orphan X is not good. Orphan X is great. Whatever you like best in a thriller - action, plot, character, suspense - Orphan X has it

—— Simon Toyne

Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher

—— Lisa Gardner

Bond, Frodo, Paddington Bear - some of literature's greatest heroes have been orphans. Add Orphan X's Evan Smoak to the list

—— Shortlist

In terms of plot, characters, suspense and innovation, Orphan X is outstanding . . . I've always thought that one reason for Tom Clancy's success was the endless detail he provided about military hardware, and that the James Bond novels benefited from the loving attention Ian Fleming devoted to the martinis, expensive cars and gorgeous women he so admired. Hurwitz outdoes both writers . . . Orphan X is a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller. It's also the start of a series, one that might give Lee Child's Jack Reacher books a run for their money

—— WASHINGTON POST

Bestseller Hurwitz melds non-stop action and high-tech gadgetry with an acute character study in this excellent series opener . . . Evan Smoak is an electrifying character

—— Publishers Weekly

A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series

—— Associated Press

I absolutely devoured it! It's right up my street and I couldn't get enough of Patti and Rose Gold, alternating my opinion of them at the same speed that I was turning the pages! A fabulous read!

—— Sandie Jones, author of The Other Woman

Superb! And seriously twisted. This book will play with your mind...then STAY on your mind. Compelling and very, very clever

—— Teresa Driscoll, bestselling author of I Will Make You Pay.

Two extraordinary narrators drive the nail-biting action in this sensational, compulsively readable debut. A tour de force of captivating psychological suspense

—— Gilly Macmillan

An original, stunning debut! Masterful crafting of a split time-frame and utterly compelling characters will hook readers from the very first page until they finally learn the truth hiding within this chilling mother-daughter relationship. An intelligent, beguiling read that should be at the top of every reader's list

—— Wendy Walker

More than a page-turner-although it's undoubtably that - The Recovery of Rose Gold plumbs the depths of this poisoned mother-daughter relationship, asking probing questions about why we all hurt the ones we love. An explosive debut from a thrilling new voice

—— Kirsten Chen, author of Bury What We Cannot Take

A blackly comic and original novel with a fascinatingly complex heroine in Rose Gold - you will be both horrified by and rooting for her

—— Heat

Wrobel has crafted two gloriously complex characters who will swing the reader between horrified disbelief and empathy in the turn of a single page. Wrobel uses witty writing and clever plotting to ensure the reader will fly through the pages in search of the truth. It takes profound skill to craft such a twisty and darkly entertaining read, and Wrobel does it in her debut as deftly as only the best thriller writers can do

—— Amy Stuart, #1 bestselling author of Still Mine and Still Water

Intelligent. Highly disturbing

—— Literary Review

Very rarely does a book like The Recovery of Rose Gold come along . . . this is a book that wastes no time in enticing in a reader and keeping them guessing until the very last page

—— Culturefly

Sinister and chilling . . . The writing flows beautifully and I felt like each character was confiding in me, trusting me with their secrets. I loved every bit of this thrilling story and the ending was brilliant and perfect. It's an amazing debut looking at the tangled web of a controlling mother/daughter relationship and a must read in my opinion

—— NB Magazine

Taut, twisted and with two terrifically toxic narrators, this thriller offers a wonderfully wicked perspective on complicated mother-daughter relationships. Gripping

—— Psychologies

Striking. Unsettling yet compelling reading

—— Oxford Times

It will make you laugh on one page, exhibiting the darkest of humour, and then make you shudder at the very next

—— Chat Special

A gritty story of truth and fantasy

—— Sainsbury's Magazine

Must read

—— Hello

I haven't come across two more unbalanced characters in books than this mother and daughter

—— Prima

Horribly riveting. At times I wanted to, but I could not put it down

—— Saga Magazine

Wrobel's claustrophobic debut explores the sinister subject of parents who deliberately make their children ill . . . Find out who's manipulating who in this clever chiller

—— Sunday Express

Deliciously icy. Wrobel's cleverly constructed plot twists and turns, undermining any sense of integrity the minute you catch a glimpse of it

—— Irish News

In vivid detail, Hope Adams illuminates life in convict quarters on a stinking, storm-soaked ship, and delves into the lives of individual women and the small tragedies that have condemned them to be sent far away, with little hope of return

—— Jewish Chronicle

A well-paced page-turner illuminating a forgotten story that reminds us how far we have come

—— Jewish Chronicle

Pulls you into the heart of its story, while celebrating redemption, rehabilitation and the good in people. All set to the backdrop of a truly fascinating slice of history

—— Phase Eight Book Club

Historical events and characters are cleverly blended into a thought-provoking tale

—— Candis

Adams disguises a social-history lesson on women's rights as a gripping period drama

—— Cosmopolitan
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