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Monday, January 13, 2020

Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz

The latest in the Orphan X series!  I've reviewed previous entries here.   I've thoroughly enjoyed The Nowhere Man who gives his help to those who need it.

From Description:
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After breaking with the Program, he reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in shadows who helps the truly desperate. But the government didn’t let go of him easily, sending their best to hunt him down and eliminate him. All of them failed. With his deadliest enemies behind him, Evan is facing a new challenge—what is he going to do now that no one is after him?

Poor Evan, his training did little to help him adjust to an ordinary life, but it has given him the skills to help others against overwhelming odds.  When he accepts the call to the Nowhere Man from Max Merriweather, he intends for it to be his last mission.  

But...each time he thinks he has completed his assignment, he discovers there is another angle, a higher-up that must be taken care of before Max is safe.  While the books are not realistic, the reader roots for Evan Smoak as he dedicates himself to saving others, one innocent at a time, and Coleridge's term "suspension of disbelief" is eagerly accepted.  

I have no idea where Hurwitz will take Evan next, but please don't leave the Nowhere Man behind.

Read in September; blog review scheduled for Jan. 

NetGalley/St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books
Thriller.  Jan. 28, 2018.  Print length:  400 pages.


10 comments:

  1. This is another series I really want to read. I find the whole idea of the main character and his past thoroughly intriguing. :)

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    1. It took me a little while to get into the first one, but once I did, I was committed and waited for each new book in the series. :)

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  2. I tried reading the first in the series but couldn’t get into it - and you make me wish I had! Is it possible to pick it up at any point!

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    1. There were some things that irritated me (like the emphasis on his tastes in alcohol and the frequent detailed fight scenes in the first book), but I can't resist a vigilante who helps the innocent. :)

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  3. Sounds like an intriguing series. Will have to check them out. :)

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    1. Full of action and suspense, but not everyone's cup of tea. :)

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  4. My husband and I have listened to a couple of these on audio. It's a series that appeals to both of us and so we do this on road trips. I can't remember if we left off at #2 or #3, but good to know that there are more. I think this is #5?

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    1. I can see that this would make a road trip more interesting! Yes, there are now five books in the series. Gregg Hurwitz is an interesting character in his own right--a BA from Harvard and MA in Shakespearean Tragedy from Trinity College, Oxford. Not just another pretty face.... :)

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  5. I really need to give this series a try. It sounds like it's a strong series.

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  6. I think my husband reads this series and enjoys it a lot. I may have to steal one of his books!

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