"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. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan 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.
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."
In this book, the call he receives is from former mentor and father figure to Evan in the Orphan X program, Jack Johns. It is a desperate call as Johns is about to be captured, tortured and killed for information regarding the whereabouts of Evan himself. Former Orphan CharlesVan Sciver has been assigned, at the highest levels, to erase all vestiges of the program. Evan will stop at nothing to track down Jack's killers, but in the meantime, his mentor's last request was to "protect the package," which, as it turns out, was Johns' only remaining protege, a 16-year-old girl named Joey. Fans of Ludlum's Bourne series will enjoy the stop-at-nothing focus, resourcefulness, and lethal skills of Evan. Will he let a girl get in the way of his revenge? Fun, fast read with well-developed and engaging characters.
Glowing reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and the Book Reporter.
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