Series: Orphan X
(#7)
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Release Date: February 8, 2022
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thrillers / SuspenseThe New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever.
Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As
Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan
Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a
new mission—The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times
of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life, and the complete
devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and
deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn't
interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.
Aragon
Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas.
He's also the patron of the local area—supplying employment in legitimate
operations, providing help to the helpless, a rough justice to the
downtrodden, and a future to a people normally with little hope. He's
complicated—a not completely good man, who does bad things for often
good reasons. However, for all his money and power, he is helpless when
one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his innocent eighteen-year-old
daughter, spiriting her away into the armored complex that is their
headquarters in Mexico. With no other way to rescue his daughter, he
turns to The Nowhere Man. Now not only must Evan figure out how to get
into the impregnable fortress of a heavily armed, deeply paranoid cartel
leader, but he must decide if he should help a very bad man—no matter
how just the cause.
Dark Horse, by author Gregg Hurwitz, is the Seventh installment in the authors Orphan X series. Because Prodigal Son ended on a explosive cliffhanger ending, this book actually begins 6 months from that ending. Readers were left wondering how our hero was going to get him out of one of biggest jams of this series. A quick summary: Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As
Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan
Program.
After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a
new mission—The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times
of trouble. Evan's life hasn't exactly been easy lately. He's been given a pardon by the US President hoping that he would retire. He has a complicated relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, who is a prosecutor, as well as mother to Peter, who looks up to Evan as an idol. With Joey Morales, the young 16-year old hacker, and former Orphan helping Evan redesign his apartment, Evan has to decide to want to do with a question that remains from the last installment.
Meanwhile, Aragon
Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas.
He's also the patron of the local area—supplying employment in legitimate
operations, providing help to the helpless, a rough justice to the
downtrodden, and a future to a people normally with little hope. He's
complicated—a not completely good man, who does bad things for often
good reasons. However, for all his money and power, he is helpless when
one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his innocent eighteen-year-old
daughter Anjelina, spiriting her away into the armored complex that is their
headquarters in Mexico under the watchful eyes of the El Moreno Leones cartel.
With no other way to rescue his daughter, he
turns to The Nowhere Man. Now not only must Evan figure out how to get
into the impregnable fortress of a heavily armed, deeply paranoid cartel
leader, but he must decide if he should help a very bad man—no matter
how just the cause. Once again, Evan is hoping to live by the Ten Commandments. Evan
often finds that the commandments with which he is trying to live his
life by do not meet the realities of human flaws and sins. Especially when it comes to a powerful Mexican Cartel and a young girl who has a mind of her own. Actually that pertains to both Anjelina, who isn't as innocent as once thought, and Joey who wants more than to just be a sidekick.
There's some interesting outside of the box things happening to not only Joey, but Mia as well as she receives dire news. To top it off, the author once again leaves readers pondering what's going to happen next. Will he find his half brother? Will he have to go on the run from the government again? Will Joey find her happy place, or will she be dragged back into Noah's newest trouble? As always, Tommy (the Evan's gunsmith), and Evan's twisted neighbors at Castle Heights, are all back causing a ruckus.
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