Orphan X series

About this book series

This is a book series by Gregg Hurwitz. It has 15 books. The first book was published in 2016.

Author: Gregg Hurwitz
Category: Thriller

All books of Orphan X series in order

  • 1Poster Orphan X
    Orphan X

    The first in the international bestselling series! Who is Orphan X? The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached ...

    January 19, 2016
  • 1.5Poster Buy a Bullet
    Buy a Bullet

    An exclusive ebook short story, not a full-length novel. Taken from a children's home as a young boy, Evan Smoak was a trained to become a government operative known as Orphan ...

    October 11, 2016
  • 2Poster The Nowhere Man
    The Nowhere Man

    Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate, he can - He will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken ...

    January 17, 2017
  • 3Poster Hellbent
    Hellbent

    The explosive Orphan X thriller from bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. To those who trained him, he's orphan-x. to those who need him, he's the nowhere man. Once a secret ...

    January 30, 2018
  • 3.5Poster The Intern
    The Intern

    The Nowhere Man is a figure shrouded in secrecy-a near legendary figure who helps the truly desperate, those with nowhere else to turn who are lucky enough to be able to reach ...

    December 18, 2018
  • 4Poster Out of the Dark
    Out of the Dark

    How do you stop the most powerful man on earth? Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government programme. He left it behind long ago but now someone ...

    January 29, 2019
  • 5Poster Into the Fire
    Into the Fire

    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 ...

    January 28, 2020
  • 5.5Poster The List
    The List

    A thrilling new story featuring Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling Orphan X! Joey Morales was the last recruit of the government's full black operation, the Orphan ...

    August 4, 2020
  • 6Poster Prodigal Son
    Prodigal Son

    Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed - in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X ...

    January 26, 2021
  • 7Poster Dark Horse
    Dark Horse

    Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Dark Horse. Evan Smoak is a man with many identities ...

    February 8, 2022
  • 8Poster The Last Orphan
    The Last Orphan

    Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was ...

    February 14, 2023
  • 8.5Poster The Recital
    The Recital

    The Orphan Program - which recruited and trained off-the-books assassins for the government - was responsible for creating some of the world's most dangerous individuals. Evan ...

    November 7, 2023
  • 9Poster Lone Wolf
    Lone Wolf

    The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns in this "crackerjack new thriller" (Kirkus Reviews) and "crushingly brilliant piece of fiction" (Best Thriller Books)! Once a ...

    February 13, 2024
  • 10Poster Nemesis
    Nemesis

    The incredible tenth book in the orphan-x series - guaranteed to thrill you from page one... No greater friend Evan Smoak is the guy you want on your side. A former government ...

    February 11, 2025
  • 11Poster Antihero
    Antihero

    In the next book in this New York Times bestselling series, Evan Smoak takes on his most complex mission yet―one where he not only has to protect but also avenge, and find a way ...

    February 10, 2026

Praise for Orphan X series

Memorable as hell

Outstanding in every way

Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher

Read this book. You will thank me later

Feels like a missile launch

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Robert Crais

The most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity

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Jonathan Kellerman

A page-turning masterpiece

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Simon Toyne

Orphan X is not good. Orphan X is great. Whatever you like best in a thriller - action, plot, character, suspense - Orphan X has it

Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense

The most gripping thriller I've read in a long, long time

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A masterpiece of suspense and thrills... Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series

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A new series character to rival Reacher

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bestseller Hurwitz melds non-stop action and high-tech gadgetry with an acute character study in this excellent series opener... Evan Smoak is an electrifying character

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Bond, Frodo, Paddington Bear - some of literature's greatest heroes have been orphans. Add Orphan X's Evan Smoak to the list

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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.

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The page-turner of the season is Orphan X... Wonderful

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Orphan X is outstanding... a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller

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