"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...

A thrilling new story featuring Gregg Hurwitz's New York Times bestselling Orphan X! Joey Morales was the last recruit of the government's full black operation, the Orphan Program. Trained to be an assassin until she washed out, she was rescued by Evan Smoak, the former agent known as Orphan X. Now Joey, still a teenager and under the watchful eye of Evan Smoak, lives on her own (with Dog the dog) and attends college. While on campus, she tries...

The Nowhere Man is a figure shrouded in secrecy-a near legendary figure who helps those lucky few who are given the means to reach out to him. Before he was the Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak was a highly trained government operative known to a few as Orphan X. This is the story of Smoak's first outing as the Nowhere Man, where after a gear run to Northern California, he happens to spot a young woman at a coffee shop. Brutalized and under the control of...

Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak 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 reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him. Someone at the very highest...

Rogue Agent is an exceptional series debut...' BestThrillers.comOne agent's stellar FBI career, cut short by an operation gone south. His mentor, a bureau legends star continues to rise.A decade later, as the investigation of a missing UN helicopter unfolds, half-truths and lies from long ago, assumed dead and buried, resurface with shocking consequences. One man will risk everything to uncover the truth.Tom Wiseman's old-school investigative brilliance...

A country at war with itself. A traitor to protect it.The Cold War rages. Western powers are fighting multiple threats on multiple fronts. Discovered by the CIA hiding in America, an on the run, highly-trained South African solider is given a simple mission: Return home, extract a top secret, desperate scientist with ultra-sensitive intelligence.Get him back to the US - safely.The scientist holds a terrifying, cataclysmic secret. Something that not...

Family dysfunction turns deadly in this riveting international thriller...At first glance, the Chedwell Estate – Blessinghurst Manor – with its sprawling grounds and sumptuous Tudor architecture, appears to be a tranquil palace tucked away in the English countryside, but appearances deceive. After their father's death and their mother's debilitating stroke, siblings Roberto and Stella Chedwell are squabbling over the family treasures. In a last-ditch...

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

A retelling of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...