The next installment in the Orphan X series is finally here!
Thanks to Kaye Publicity and Minotaur Books for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.
LONE WOLF – Gregg Hurwitz (Released February 13th, 2024)
Book Description:
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 men 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.
My Thoughts: 4/5 stars
What’s a series you enjoy? This Orphan X series is up there for me, and Hurwitz brings another stellar installment. The anger I felt when I left this at work when I had TWO CHAPTERS LEFT. Rookie mistake. But it was well worth the wait.
While you don’t HAVE to read the other books, I recommend it. The recurring characters are a delight, and this case would baffle you like it did me when I started. A man of Evan Smoak’s expertise doesn’t get cases to find a missing dog every day. Seems simple, right? Well, this obviously spirals into something more sinister, and it was one hell of a ride! Book ten, please!
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