Evan Smoak returns as the Nowhere Man in Gregg Hurwitz’ latest Orphan novel. Raised in the covert Orphan program from the age of twelve, he was trained as an assassin and designated Orphan X. After escaping from the program he spent his time helping people who found themselves in impossible and dangerous situations. It was his way to atone for his past life, but how many people must he save before he saves himself?

Max Merriweather is holding an envelope for his cousin Grant, a forensic accountant. When Grant is tortured and murdered, his killers come after Max for the information contained in the envelope. Evan decided that he would take on one last case, so when Max calls Evan comes to his rescue. Taking care of Grant’s killers is only the tip of the iceberg. Max’s attackers were part of an organization and represented only the lowest tier. To keep Max safe, Evan must follow a trail that leads to the organization’s head.

Evan is assisted by Joey Morales, a teenager that he rescued from the Orphan program. She is a hacker who uses her skills to not only track Evan’s opponents, but to keep him as safe as possible. Evan’s condo is equipped with state of the art security, weapons and technology. However, one of the problems that he faces is avoiding his neighbors, including Mia, a DA that he cares for who has become suspicious of his actions. From illegal dog fights to setting up an arrest and subsequent jail break the action is intense and relentless. Hurwitz just gets better with each entry in this series and Into the Fire is guaranteed to keep you reading late into the night. I would like to thank NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing this book for my review.

Once again Gregg Hurwitz has created a action packed, thriller that is both compelling and intriguing. But this one doesn’t just build the tension like a winch slowly tightening in your stomach. With this novel he gives you multiple ups and downs until the final thrilling conclusion.

This was a good read and well written. The plot had some twists. I enjoyed it. Making me use 100 characters for my review is super annoying

Fast paced action, a bad-ass hero who has a heart... another Orphan X novel that ended too soon! Looking forward to the sequel, especially with that cliffhanger ending!

This was a fast paced, action packed thriller. I love this series and this installment did not disappoint. The author defines his characters well and makes them relatable.
Many thanks to St. Martin’s Press and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

“He looks like an ordinary man.
He is not...
Within the top echelon of Intel circles Evan Smoak is known as Orphan X...
When Evan had gone rogue from the Orphan Program, he’d kept his other alias—the Nowhere Man—and devoted himself to helping people in dire circumstances. Clients reached him by calling 1-855-2-NOWHERE.”
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After some relatively heavy reading it is truly a treat to slip into the pages with an old familiar character. Book 5 in this series is every bit as entertaining as all the others.

“... a Bowie knife-wielding psychopath nicknamed “The Terror”” is after an everyday guy by the name of Max Merriweather and Max has no clue why—only that he’s in danger. If you’ve read any of the books in this series you can rightly guess that soon the paths of Max and The Nowhere Man will cross. If you haven’t yet met Evan Smaok I recommend you start at the beginning of this series because the back story of this character is immensely interesting. You won’t regret it!
Thanks to @macmillanusa and @minotaur_books for this #advancereaderscopy.

I love the Ophran X series. This was a great addition to the series. I love that Evan is becoming more involved in the world and that he is starting to learn how to put himself out there. Evan is really starting to evolve as a person

This a fast paced read, continuing the Orphan X series, the story of the Nowhere Man, a former government asset and assassin, on the run from the the US authorities, whose sideline has been using his unique skillset to help people in trouble. The story starts off with misdirection and surprise and as the story unfolds, the Nowhere Man encounters numerous problems that have to be resolved before the mystery is solved and he can retire as the Nowhere Man.  Action packed from start to finish, this is a quick read that is hard to put down with a twist at the finish.


*will post to online venues closer to publication. Love the Hurwitz books!

Any thriller fan interested in the fast page turning non stop action will already know this series, Orphan X knows this series is can’t miss thriller reading. Fans of Daniel Silva, Jack Carr will absorb this novel .

Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz is about Evan Smoak (Orphan X) who is an ex black ops government asset. He left the program is now known as the “Nowhere man” helping people who are in desperate need, all he asks is they pass on his number to someone else who needs help. This is an action packed booked, and the 5th one in the series. I’ve never read any of them till this one and it was easy to read it and keep up with what was going on. I definitely like the feel of this book and how it keeps you on your toes. There is a bit of romance installed in the action but nothing that takes away from the characters. Evan also has his own personal hacker who I enjoyed reading.


Max is definitely an interesting character with everything in his life turning upside down and feeling worthless to his family hits some notes. When his cousin and someone else he knows gets killed he’s now on the run from someone but no clue as to who, and that’s when Evan Smoak (Nowhere man) comes in. It looks like an easy job but there are so many layers that Smoak has to pull back and look at to see what all is going on.


Hurwitz does an excellent job at keeping everyone’s attention and to continue reading on trying to figure out what all is going on, if Smoak is going to win and can everyone get out alive? The book flows smoothly with the writing and keeps you entertained. Even when it feels getting a repeat with how many people Smoak has to take out, Hurwitz keeps you wanting more till everything is wrapped up nicely.


This is an advance copy from Net Galley.

A fast paced hang on tight action packed read. This is in the Orphan X series. A good read overall but at times the nonstop action seemed to overpower the development of the characters which impacted my enjoyment. Many thanks to Greg Hurwitz, and NetGalley for affording me the opportunity to read an ARC of this novel, soon to be published in January.

I’ll keep this short since other reviews have sent it all and I agree.
I will say that this is the first book I’ve read in the series. Since I like a good thriller and I really loved this great thriller I am going to be reading all the other books.

The Orphan X books remain one of the best thriller series out there, and this new entry is outstanding. The writing is crisp, with no waste or padding; the juxtaposition of Evan's hyper-competence as an assassin with his cluelessness of normal social interaction is humorous and touching (Bond or Reacher never had to bring the refreshments to a homeowners association meeting); all of the characters are complex individuals; and the action is pretty much non-stop.

I recommend this highly.

This is a great adventure and political suspense novel on its own. As the latest in the Orphan X series, it's a fun, fun read.

I enjoyed Evan Smoak's latest challenges and his even-better reintegration into Mia and Peter's lives. The plot seemed to be multi-layered, like an onion, with the bad guys being ever and ever more complicated - and threatening. But author Hurwitz does a masterful job of weaving it all together into a tightly-resolved, satisfyingly-finished story. Fitting for the last of Orphan X's missions -- or is it? A phone call at the end of the book leaves us wondering, and anxiously awaiting the next in the series!

Being released January 28, 2020, this is a must-have for fans of the Orphan X series. Or for readers who just enjoyed good guys, doing hard things, for the right reason. Great read!

Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press and Minotaur Books for providing me a free copy of this book for this honest review.

Into the Fire, the fifth book in the Evan Smoak/Orphan X series, is perhaps the best and my favorite one in the series. Evan Smoak is tiring of the secret and violent world of the Nowhere Man, a person who drops everything to help someone in need. He decides to help one more person, Max Merriweather. Max luckily escapes some violent men and when someone tells him to call the Nowhere Man for help. Max believes the men that were after him are linked to his cousin who was murdered while working undercover for the government. Evan quickly finds and eliminates the violent men that almost killed Max.

Max and Evan soon find out that more evil people are behind the men sent to kill Max; Evan must now work even further to eliminate the threat. Evan unravels more and more levels of people who think Max has the information that Max’s cousin uncovered, and they will do anything to stop him from releasing that information.

Evan uses his young friend Joey to help with high-tech computer work needed for his investigations. She’s one of my favorite characters as she brings both quick witted technical help while also using that quick wit to needle Evan. Evan also encounters and helps assistant district attorney Mia and her son Peter, another set of favorite characters that force Evan to be more human and also bring additional humor.

I’ve read four of the five books in this series, the only books that I’ve read by Greg Hurwitz. I was fortunate to be in Houston when he was appearing at Murder By The Book and I picked up Orphan X, the first book in what was then his new series. After hearing him talk, I was excited to read it and started it almost immediately. I was glad I did. That book was one of my favorites of the year. Unfortunately, I felt the second book, The Nowhere Man, was lacking some of what I really liked about the series -- humor and his interactions with more normal people. I was happy to find the third book, Hellbent was almost as good as the first. I’ve not read the fourth one yet, but as I mentioned Into the Fire is great, and possibly even the best. I was worried that this could be the last in the series, but the ending changed my opinion.

Into the Fire by Greg Hurwitz is the first Orphan X novel I've read. Definitely a stand alone story as this is the first Orphan X I have read. Wish I had discovered them earlier and will be anxiously awaiting the next story. Lots of action and edge of your seat moments make this book difficult to put down. I want to thank Minotaur Books and Net Galley for an early copy to review.

Into the Fire brings a much needed dose of Orphan X back into my life. One of my favorite characters, Evan Smoak is once again using his stealthy assassin skills to save some poor shmuck who is sucked into trouble by his cousin. Max Merriweather is his family's outcast but when his golden boy cousin Grant is murdered, Max finds himself neck deep in trouble and in need of the Nowhere Man. The beginning was a little slow and a little bit light in the Evan department but once the action started I could not put the story down. Every time the story seemed too pat, along comes another twist and turns the story on its head. I love the redemption angle for both Evan and Max. Orphan X novels will always be a must read for me, I am an Evan fan for life. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from Netgalley.

Riveting. Original. Fully developed. I need to read the others in this series. It is not necessary to read this one in order as I didn’t feel lost reading this first. I hope this is another book in this series after this one because the ending has left me with a lot of questions to be answered. Thank you to #netgalley for the opportunity to read #intothefire ahead of publication—it was great!

The great thing about reading the fifth novel in this thrilling series is that you know what to expect and Gregg Hurwitz does not disappoint! While this novel had a few wonderful debuts (Dog the Rhodesian Ridgeback) the best new element was seeing Orphan X vulnerable and human. Although it has been said and implied throughout the previous books that he can/does get hurt, his exceptional training and amazing (reflexes? talent?) proficiency make it highly unlikely. To see him struggle with physical challenges as well as his spiritual and emotional ones continues to round out this character we have come to know (somewhat) and love (unequivocally)!

I've been a huge fan of the Orphan X--Evan Smoak the Nowhere Man-- series, have read every book, and was thrilled to receive an ARC from NetGalley for Into The Fire for an honest review. Evan Smoak is the quintessential loner/spy archetype with a cold as steel exterior who at his core longs for family connection he knows he can never have.

Into The Fire is somewhat of a departure from the preceding books in the series, since it focuses on Evan's role as The Nowhere Man, someone who helps others in desperate trouble (like The Equalizer, only more badass), instead of the Orphan X story line of the previous books. I must admit I missed the focus and pacing of the Orphan spy novels, though The Nowhere Man persona appeared in each one of those books. The first few chapters of the novel seemed slow in comparison to earlier titles, and because Evan was introduced to new readers of the series in the early pages so the book could stand alone, I wanted to get to the heart of the tale without having to rehash Evan's backstory. Once the story got rolling, though, I was drawn in, just as I've always been, to this stellar series.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of the book.