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Hellbent: An Orphan X Novel

by Gregg Hurwitz
Minotaur: St. Martin's. Jan. 2018. 416p. ISBN 9781250119179. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250119186. F
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In his third outing, Evan Smoak, aka Orphan X, takes on another difficult assignment, but this one is personal. After breaking away from the Orphans program, an expendable assassins initiative buried in the bowels of the U.S. Defense Department, Evan sets himself up as the "Nowhere Man" to help others who are in desperate situations. His former mentor, Jack Johns, calls the Nowhere Man line just as he is about to be captured and murdered by Van Sciver, the new head tasked with scrubbing the Orphans program and eliminating its participants. Evan was given a final assignment by Jack "to get the package," which unexpectedly turns out to be a 16-year-old female recruit.
VERDICT Fans of the first two books (Orphan X; Nowhere Man) will enjoy this nail-biting , twisty thriller. It will also appeal to devotees of Robert Ludlum's "Bourne" series. [See Prepub Alert, 7/24/17.]
Reviewed by Vicki Gregory, Sch. of Information, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa , Oct 15, 2017
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