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Buy a Bullet

An Orphan X Novel (Related to this series)

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He is known by some as Evan Smoak. To a few he is known as Orphan X. But generally he is not known at all.


Taken from a children's home as a young boy, Evan Smoak was a trained to become a government operative known as Orphan X. But then he broke with the programme.


Now living out of sight and out of reach of his former employers, Evan chances upon a young woman in a coffee shop in Northern California who needs his help. Brutalized and under the control of a very powerful, dangerous man, she knows her life is at risk if she doesn't escape. And Evan knows that only a man with his particular set of skills has any chance of setting her free. His next move was never in doubt.


Buy A Bullet is the story of the day Orphan X became The Nowhere Man.


© Gregg Hurwitz 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

Outstanding in every way
Lee Child
Read this book. You will thank me later
David Baldacci
The most gripping thriller I've read in a long, long time!
Tess Gerritsen
The page-turner of the season is Orphan X ... Wonderful
The Times
Memorable as hell
James Patterson
The most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity
Robert Crais
A page-turning masterpiece
Jonathan Kellerman
A new series character to rival Reacher
Independent
A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series
Daily Mail
There is a pristine classicism to Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X, which borrows from Robert Ludlum and superhero lore to bring us Evan Smoak . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places . . . Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a modern master.
Guardian

User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
Author Gregg Hurwitz
Narrator Scott Brick
Series An Orphan X Novel
Duration 37 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405953221
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Crime and mystery fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
5.0 (1 review)
Narration
5.0 (1 review)

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