Orphan X is the best thriller series out there. Evan is one badass man and I love the straight forward way he takes care of the bad guys. With a great supporting cast, I never fail to enjoy his non stop rollercoaster assignments. He is a good guy., no doubt about it. Kudos to Gregg Hurwitz for another amazing chapter in this ongoing saga.

great book full of suspense and action would recommend to all thriller reader and other readers could be a movie or tv serie love it

Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X novels are some of my favorite books. Out of the Dark is no exception. Evan Smoak or also known as Orphan X has a complicated personality. He was trained to use violence and action to kill people when ordered to by Jack his "father" figure. Jack rescued him from an orphanage "and taught him to kill for the US government, As a result he easily used violence when working with Jack and as part of the governments Orphan Program. However when the program closes he creates his own program to use all the skills he's learned. He tries to help people who need it He cares about others but is unable to find any personal happiness or satisfaction outside of his life. The Orphan X novels are some of my favorite books and I hope Gregg Hurwitz writes more. Maybe Evan can find some way to have close relationships with others.

Book four in this page turning series ,action packed a true page turner..Once again I was kept on the edge of my seat.I recommend this series to anyone who is looking for an intelligent exciting well written series,

Out of the Dark is the fourth book in The Orphan X thriller series which features a Jason Bourne type invincible secret agent trained from childhood to be the perfect weapon. Orphan X left the fold, went out on his own, and pays it forward by helping people who call his special phone number. He has a sort of secret identity and a high tech condo like Bruce Wayne’s bat cave. He is also haunted by his past and by the efforts of some to erase all evidence that the Orphan program ever existed. He is part of that evidence.

This is a solid action packed thriller, just not quite the compelling read the other books in the series were. By about the midpoint, this reader was no longer invested in the outcome. It felt very much like a standard story line found in many thrillers.

Many thanks to the publisher for providing a copy for review

Orphan X is back! The fourth book in the series finds Evan Smoak in Washington going after enemies in the highest of places, all while making time to help the next desperate caller in his role as the Equalizer-esque Nowhere Man. Favorite supporting characters from the previous installments make appearances throughout, and an unlikely alliance is formed with a past enemy. It feels slightly silly to admit that I was even happy to see Vera (II) again. The usual over-the-top ingredients are present: extravagant vodkas (I googled the fog one to find out if it was a joke at the expense of hipsters), ultra-specialized equipment, expert hand-to-hand combat, and surprising weapons (including a variety of ninja-like uses for a backpack). The pace is fast but slows down just enough to allow glimpses of Evan’s softer side in his unwillingness to harm innocents and relationships with computer whiz Joey, neighbor Mia, and her son, Peter. Secret Service agent Naomi Templeton’s character is particularly well-drawn, with her family and work conflicts all shown to good effect. There are some appealing turns of phrase, and the dialogue is well done.

Basically, you absorb this story with its exploits and gadgets as you would a James Bond, Mission Impossible, or Batman movie; the technological details seem realistic enough to be scary and fascinating, and you don’t spend too much time dwelling on how true they are or whether you would really want a guy to be doing these terrible, vigilante-type things in real life. How could you not take to a hero who describes his attack/escape combination to his opponents in advance as if he were calling a complex pool shot, then executes it exactly as described despite having warned them? The whole time you are reading, you are engaging in a mental casting call for who should star in the movie that is crying out be made from these books.

I look forward to giving this book as a gift and to buying the hardcover for my shelf.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an advance digital copy of this book for review.

Technical note for reviewers: the ARC does work on kindle, but it appears on the device under a different title. Please check again before leaving a bad rating based on technical problems having nothing to do with the author or the content of the book.

Oh boy, do I ache all over.

Thank you Netgalley and St Martin's Press for this arc. I loved it!.
(Note for Judy D., previous reviewer -- this is not a kindle doc file but an E-pub file.... you'll need Adobe Digital reader installed on your computer to read and it's really not nice to rate a book you haven't read a one star).

So I couldn't get all comfortable on a nice piece of upholstered furniture.... I had to read this on my computer instead of my kindle. Didn't matter, I love the Orphan X books and I couldn't wait until January to read it. This is the 4th book in the series and while it can be read as a stand-alone, the previous books introduce the recurring characters (several) and should be read so as to fully understand Evan's heart.

The pacing and action were pretty much non-stop in this book as expected. There were also enough technical details (weaponry, computer hacking stuff, vodka distilled from fog) that I was able to continue breathing during the six hours it took me to read this. Were those details accurate?? Were they even plausible? I don't know and I didn't care. They were part of the story and the fun. The hide and seek/hunt and chase game was played on 2 different fronts in this book. One front was personal for Evan and it was interesting to watch the moral conflicts that one raised for him. His role in the other game was as his "No where Man" persona and had a bit more heart to it. But then his was fighting for Trevor instead of himself.

It was also good to see Joey again and hope to see more of her in future books. The "Uncle Cousin" role she put Evan into was fun to imagine.


I am NOT cancelling my kindle pre-order of Out of the Dark so that the next time I want to read this, I can be a lot more comfortable on a nice piece of upholstered furniture and I won't have to re-set the font on the screen every time another e-mail comes in.