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Wednesday, 30 January 2019

#BookReview Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @MinotaurBooks @FreshFiction

Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When darkness closes in―he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz’s #1 international bestselling Orphan X series.

Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets―i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past in the Orphan Program is reaching out to him.

Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed, he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President of the United States.

But President Bennett knows that Orphan X is after him and, using weapons of his own, he's decided to counter-attack. Bennett activates the one man who has the skills and experience to track down and take out Orphan X―the first recruit of the program, Orphan A.

With Evan devoting all his skills, resources, and intelligence to find a way through the layers of security that surround the President, suddenly he also has to protect himself against the deadliest of opponents. It's Orphan vs. Orphan with the future of the country―even the world―on the line.


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Evan Smoak is a trained assassin known as Orphan X. He was part of the Orphan Program until he broke with it and used everything he had learned to reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. Now he helps those that are desperate and have no one else to turn to. However, now someone is killing off all the Orphans, someone very high up in the government. Evan decides to strike back to take out the man behind the killings, the man who started the program, the President of the United States.

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Saturday, 7 May 2016

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

SWEDISH REVIEW

Evan Smoak lever under falsk identitet. Hans penthouse-våning är ett ointagligt, högteknologiskt fort. Han har lägenheter, bilar och vapengömmor strategiskt utplacerade över hela Los Angeles.

Men Smoak är inte en paranoid galning. Detta är hans vardag. Det är resultatet av en barndom som från tolv års ålder bestått av en skoningslös hårdträning med ett enda mål: att bli den perfekte mördaren.

Smoak har tillbringat hela sin uppväxt i ett topphemligt och olagligt forskningsprojekt hos försvarsdepartementet. Men något händer i organisationen: Smoaks hanterare, den enda personen han verkligen känner, mördas och hans tillvaro kollapsar.

Smoak vänder organisationen ryggen. Han går under jorden och väljer istället att använda sina färdigheter för att hjälpa människor som hamnat i knipa. Men någon anser att Smoak är en riskfaktor som måste försvinna. Och denne någon har samma träning som Smoak själv ...


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Jag har länge varit intresserad av att läsa en bok av Gregg Hurwitz och när jag fick se Vem är Evan Smoak? så tänkte jag att den titeln verkade mycket intressant och jag hoppades att den skulle vara spännande att läsa. Och det var den, men den var även väldigt rolig vilket var en överraskning. Evan Smoak må vara en lönnmördare, men han är definitivt inte en kallhjärtad mördare, utan han lever med att hjälpa människor med problem som behöver elimineras...för gott!

Det bästa med boken är nog all strul han har med sina grannar i lägenhetskomplexet där han bor. Han går inte på mötena för de boende tillräckligt ofta och föröka dölja blödande knivskador i en hiss med människor är svårt. Det blir inte lättare då hans senaste ingrep strular till det ordentligt för honom och snart inser Evan att det finns någon där ute som är ute efter att utplåna Evan...

Boken är underhållande, engagerande och spännande att läsa och stundtals är den ofantlig kul. En riktigt bra bok för den som tycker om att läsa om lönnmördare men vill ha en lite annorlunda typ av bok.

Tack till Bokfabriken för recensionsexemplaret!

ENGLISH REVIEW

The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

But he's no legend.

Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as part of the off-the-books black box Orphan program, designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. He was Orphan X. Evan broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear.

Now, however, someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training. Someone who knows Orphan X. Someone who is getting closer and closer. And will exploit Evan's weakness—his work as The Nowhere Man—to find him and eliminate him. Grabbing the reader from the very first page, Orphan X is a masterful thriller, the first in Gregg Hurwitz's electrifying new series featuring Evan Smoak.


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I have been wanting to read a book by Gregg Hurwitz for a while now and I thought Orphan X looked and seemed very interesting. I hoped it would be a thrilling read, but I never expected it to be so funny. Evan Smoak may be an assassin, but he is not a cold-hearted murderer. He lives for helping people with problems that need to be permanently gone!

The best part of the book was all the trouble he had with his neighbors in the apartment building where he lives. He doesn't attend the meetings for those that live in the building and it's hard to hide a bleeding knife wound in an elevator with lots of people. And, during the last job something went wrong and now Even realizes that there is someone out there trying to eliminate him...

The book is entertaining, engaging, thrilling and on occasions hilarious to read. I would recommend this book to somebody that likes to read about assassins but are after something a bit different
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Thanks to Bokfabriken for the review copy!