One of the world's best-loved heroes Evan Smoak, otherwise known as Orphan X, returns in an all-new thrilling adventure
'Put Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne into a blender. Add one drop of nitro-glycerine and three of sulphuric acid. Switch on, and don't be surprised if the lid blows off. You've just mixed your first Orphan X' Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
----
EVERY LIFE HAS ITS PRICE
She's known as the Wolf: an assassin working through a kill list with cool efficiency.
Then someone gets in her way: Evan Smoak.
First, he refuses to conveniently die.
Then he stops her killing others.
Evan has the Wolf's measure. He met plenty like her in a former life.
But not since he's had so much to lose.
And the powers behind her are bigger than he could possibly imagine.
The Wolf's got Evan in her sights.
She won't stop. It's kill - or be killed. Cat and mouse.
And Evan has one fatal weakness.
His humanity . . .
----
Praise for the Orphan X series
'Feels like a missile launch' DAVID BALDACCI
'Outstanding in every way' LEE CHILD
'Weapons-grade thriller writing' GUARDIAN
'An immensely entertaining adventure' THE TIMES
Dive into the thrilling new novel featuring Evan Smoak - otherwise known as Orphan X. Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission - and this time, the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog. Not his usual mission, and not one Evan embraces with enthusiasm, but this unlikely, tiny job quickly explodes into his biggest mission yet. one that finds him battered between twisted AI technocrat billionaires, a mysterious female assassin who seems a mirror of himself, and personal stakes so gut-wrenching he can scarcely make sense of them. Evan's mission pushes him to his limit - he must find and take down the assassin known only as the Wolf, before she succeeds in completing her mission and killing the people who can identify her - a teenaged daughter of her last target, and Evan himself. Matched skill for skill, instinct for instinct, Evan must outwit an opponent who will literally stop at nothing if he is to survive. Praise for the Orphan X series'Feels like a missile launch' DAVID BALDACCI'Outstanding in every way' LEE CHILD'Weapons-grade thriller writing' GUARDIAN'An immensely entertaining adventure' THE TIMES
