The Last Orphan: The Thrilling Orphan X Sunday Times Bestseller (An Orphan X Novel)

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On Evan’s other side, the footballers were stomping their feet now and chanting a drinking song. But his ear was tuned to the tale being spun by the onetime member of Sérsveit Ríkislögreglustjórans. Orphan X is his best yet - a real celebration of all the strengths Gregg Hurwitz brings to a thriller Lee Child He admired vodka. Base elements put through a rigorous process, distilled and filtered until the result was transformed into its purest essence. The problem is that killing Devine would go against Evan’s code. Evan won’t work for organised crime, state bodies or political causes. He’ll only use his skills to help people who really need it –basically, the victims of those listed above. He’ll only kill someone who deserves it.

One thing will become clear to the President, Evan’s hand is not one to be forced. Because putting Orphan X in an impossible spot will only make him that much more dangerous… By now, readers know that Smoak, as a child, was taken from a group home and trained by the government to be an assassin as part of a Top Secret, off-the-books program. Thankfully, Evan had a different handler than the rest of the Orphan operators, one who instilled a set of principles in him, along with ten unique rules to live by. Years later, Evan split from the program, deciding instead to use his lethal set of skills as a vigilante fighting for justice, and the Nowhere Man was born. But that didn’t stop the government from looking for Evan, or him from going after everyone who had anything to do with the Orphan Program. A one-man war was waged, but now, things have changed.England: When Rosie Lyman travels to the Lake District as a volunteer to help children rescued from the horror of the concentration camps after the Second World War, she hopes that by caring for the young orphans, she can distract herself from the loss of the man she loves and her beloved daughter.

A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. On Evan’s other side, a lantern-jawed retiree was bragging to a gaggle of Australian coeds and anyone else within earshot that he’d been a member of the legendary Viking Squad S.W.A.T. Team known as Sérsveit Ríkislögreglustjórans. A handsome man a few years past his prime, he basked in the glow of the young women’s attention. The audiobook features a bonus conversation between Gregg Hurwitz and #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, author of the award-winning Detective D. D. Warren novels. Gregg Hurwitz has never taken his foot off the gas pedal. The Last Orphan continues his trend of complex thrills with an engaging protagonist." — Bookreporter Ben Coes, New York Times bestselling author of international espionage thrillers featuring Dewey AndreasThe plot, overall, was well developed and the pieces fit nicely together to make a good story. The end was not given away, and I appreciated that I did not know for sure with whom the boy would end up until the very end. Giving away that mystery early on would have surely taken the wind out of my sales, so to speak! And I likely would not have finished the book. There was a government assassin known as Orphan X,” he continued. “Think of him as the Big Bad Wolf. Probably American, maybe British. No one knew who he was. No one ever found out. Maybe he didn’t even exist. Maybe he was just a name they whispered to bad men to make sure they didn’t sleep well at night.”