Dark Horse
The pulse-racing Sunday Times bestseller
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Narrated by:
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Scott Brick
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By:
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Gregg Hurwitz
Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the author and Jack Carr.
The Sunday Times bestselling series returns - and Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever . . .
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 neighbour 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 - suppling employment in legitimate operations, providing help to the helpless, a 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 armoured 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.
© Gregg Hurwitz 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Critic reviews
Thanks Gregg, this is a significant evolution of Evan, and possibly the best Nowhere man chapter yet.
slam dunk, again ;-)
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Damn good
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Dark Horse delivers everything I’ve come to love about the Orphan X series, but turns the emotional dial up a notch. Evan Smoak is back doing what he does best—helping the helpless with precision, grit, and just enough heart to make you feel the weight behind every decision he makes.
This time, the person on the other end of that iconic phone call—“Do you need my help?”—adds a layer of complexity and intrigue that sets Dark Horse apart. The stakes feel higher, the action tighter, and the character development deeper than ever.
Hurwitz strikes the perfect balance between adrenaline-fueled pacing and emotional depth. The final chapters left me breathless, and the cliffhanger ending has me counting the days until the next installment.
Five stars without hesitation—for the thrill, the heart, and the lingering tension that won’t let go.
“A relentless, emotional ride—possibly the best in the series!”
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Dark Horse has certainly not disappointed, I’ve enjoyed every single second of the narrative. The developing depth of X as a man and the myriad of emotional turmoil his chosen life constantly throws up has me mesmerised. The action and excitement are there in abundance as usual with a big dollop of moral ambiguity for X to negotiate. I so want these novels to go on forever and am very grateful to Gregg Hurwitz and Scott Brick for bringing such wonderful characters to life for us all to enjoy.
Btw. Disco balls, Velcro suits and rainbow pebbles are simply scrumptious metaphors along X’s journey of change. Hurwitz is a genius.
Ok. Enough emotional outpouring. When’s the next book out? 😉
I love Orphan X
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Great book, great characters, great narrator ,looking forward to the next instalment!
It’s Evan Smoak
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