Orphan X
- 426 pages
- 15 hours of reading
I Am Pilgrim meets Jack Reacher in 'the most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity' - Robert Crais
Orphan XSeries
This series follows a former government operative, trained from a young age as an elite assassin. After years of dangerous missions, he goes underground to help those in desperate situations who have nowhere else to turn. Each new case forces him to break his own strict code, confronting his past and testing his resolve. It's a high-octane thriller that expertly blends intense action with compelling moral quandaries and deep character study.
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The Nowhere Man
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists. But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use his formidable skill set to help those unable to protect themselves. One day, however, his luck ran out. Ambushed, drugged, and spirited away, Evan wakes up in a locked room with no idea where he is or who has captured him. As he tries to piece together what's happened, testing his gilded prison and its highly trained guards for weaknesses, he receives a desperate call for help. With time running out, he will need to out-think, out-manoeuvre, and out-fight an opponent the likes of whom he's never encountered to have any chance of escape. He's got to save himself to protect those whose lives depend on him. Or die trying
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To some he was Orphan X. Others knew him as the Nowhere Man. But to Jack Johns he was a boy named Evan Smoak. Taken from an orphanage, Evan was raised inside a top-secret government programme and trained to become a lethal weapon. By Jack. And yet for all the dangerous skill he instilled in his young charge, Jack Jones cared for Evan like a son. But Jack knew too much about a programme that had gone rotten - he was a loose end that needed to be dealt with. But if you go after the only person who ever treated him like a human being, you can guarantee that the Nowhere Man will be coming for you. Hellbent on making things right . . . With Hellbent, Gregg Hurwitz raises the bar again with a masterclass in hi-octane thriller writing.
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Out of the Dark
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
THE PRESIDENT For President Jonathan Bennett, reaching the White House was the realisation of lifetime's ambition. He's leader of the free world and the most powerful man on earth. But public support for his administration is wearing thin. And if the truth about his rise to the top was exposed it would bury him. THE ASSASSIN As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from his foster home and inducted into a top secret Cold War programme. Codenamed Orphan X, he was trained to become a lethal weapon, then despatched around the world to do whatever was required to keep his country safe. When Evan discovered the mission was rotten to the core he got out, using his skills to hide in plain sight while helping those left behind by mainstream justice. THE RECKONING But Evan knows about the President's dark past. And that's dangerous knowledge. To save himself and his country, Evan must ask himself one simple question- how do you kill the most well-protected man on earth? And, when he knows you're coming for him, how do you stay alive long enough to try? One thing is certain- a desperate call for help from another unfortunate in urgent need of Evan's protection isn't going to make it any easier ... Breathtakingly bold, brilliantly accomplished and blisteringly fast-paced, Out of the Dark is The Day of the Jackal for the twenty-first century.
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The dramatic story of one of the biggest natural disasters in Canadian history, the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016, told by three of the firefighters who fought to save the city. On May 1, 2016, a wildfire burning to the southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, led to the declaration of a local state of emergency. Two days later, the fire had reached Fort McMurray, forcing the evacuation of 88,000 citizens and destroying 2,400 buildings. In total, the fire would consume more than 500,000 hectares. Into the Fire is a remarkable first-hand account of fighting a major wildfire as it moved with terrifying speed. Over the course of six days, firefighters Jerron Hawley, Graham Hurley, and Steve Sackett of the Fort McMurray Fire Department joined local expert wildfire teams and fire departments from across the country to battle the blaze. In photographs and notes made at the time, they vividly describe what they witnessed; their own personal losses and triumphs; and the fire's devastating effects. With more than 90 stunning colour photographs, Into the Fire is a dramatic eyewitness account of one of the most catastrophic disasters in recent North American history. Intimate in its telling, it is above all a testament to the courage, pride, and extraordinary efforts of the citizens of Fort McMurray, who along with emergency personnel, came together to save their city.
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Černý kůň
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Sotva se Sirotek X zotavil z útoku vražedných mikrodronů, vstupuje do jeho života Aragón Urrea, muž, který se celý život pohyboval na hraně zákona a jen jeho kladné povahové rysy ho odlišují od typického šéfa drogového kartelu. Teď se však z Aragóna stává zoufalý otec, jemuž unesli dceru, a Evan je jediný člověk na světě, který mu může pomoct. Pokud chce ovšem Sirotek dostat osmnáctiletou dívku z rezidence konkurenční zločinecké organizace, která je střežená po zuby ozbrojenými zabijáky, nezbývá mu, než se stát jedním z nich.
