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1) Orphan X
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as part of the off-the-books black...
2) The survivor
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
"Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease nine months earlier, Nate is about to leap off an 11th-floor ledge of a bank building in Santa Monica, Calif., when he notices a robbery in progress through the window next to where heas standing. Nate climbs back in the window undetected, grabs a handgun a masked man has conveniently set down, and, thanks to his ROTC firearms training, succeeds in shooting dead five of the six robbers. In revenge, the thwarted...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Max Merriweather is at the end of his rope. Separated from the woman he loves and barely scraping by, Max is a disappointment to everyone in his life. Then his very successful cousin Grant is brutally murdered. Two months before, Grant left Max an envelope with instructions to take it to a reporter if anything happened to him. Now the reporter is missing and Max's apartment is ransacked. A man at the end of his rope, he calls The Nowhere Man. With...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Spoken about only in whispers, it is said that when the Nowhere Man is reached by the truly desperate, he can and will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets--i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear and...
5) Trust no one
Author
Language
English
Description
Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist| someone Nick has never heard of|has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he|ll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed--in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drew Danner awakens in an L.A. hospital with no memory of how he got there, and no idea why the police found him over his ex-fiancee's dead body, and sets out to prove his innocence and learn how she really died.
8) The program
Author
Series
Tim Rackley novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation called The Program, he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations.
9) Dark horse
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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....
10) The last orphan
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Boss Man has an unexpected motive in destroying Mike Wingate, who's worked his way up from the bottom to become a successful home contractor in Lost Hills, California. To protect his family and himself, Mike, who was raised in a foster home, summons his only friend from those days, the formidable Shep, who has grown up to be a career criminal of considerable skill.
Author
Series
Tim Rackley novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
562 pages.
Language
English
Description
Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter. Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Devastated, furious, and burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options, a quest that leads him into...
Author
Series
Tim Rackley novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
15) The rains
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple attacks from infected adults by the time they arrive at the school where other young survivors are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that transformed...
16) Tell no lies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A series of anonymous threats intended for others puts a man, and everyone he loves, in the path of a relentless killer. Daniel Brasher has always been something of a disappointment to his old-money aristocratic San Francisco mother. Daniel left his high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community organizer wife and work at a job he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he is ready to move on and start...
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