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Average rating4.2
* A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller * "Read the Orphan X series. You'll thank me later." --David Baldacci The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented - and most feared - men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate. If anyone is truly desperate, it's Max Merriweather. Max is at the end of his rope. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. However, someone really wants that key, badly enough that Max - and anyone he turns to - is in deadly danger. What seems like a simple job for The Nowhere Man turns out to be anything but. Behind every threat he takes out, a deadlier one emerges and Evan Smoak must put himself in greater danger than ever before as he heads once more Into The Fire.
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This is an entertaining series, and the rating doesn't reflect that. The problem is that with suspense novels working at breakneck speed, there is an issue with length. This story is complicated–or, more accurately, multi-layered– and that works against the sustaining of pace and suspense. Hurwitz juggles these elements well, but the peeling back of the layers erodes the suspense. I was left with an “Oh, c'mon!” reaction. Nevertheless, it was absorbing enough that I just got the next two in the series.
Tough one here. The book is broken up into smaller subplots, unlike his other books. This style is not my favorite as there are smaller buildups to the finallies. The being said I think it contains the best fight scene of any of his books... And easily the best last line of a book!