In what is really the first standalone book in the series in terms of narrative arc, we see Evan Smoak help a random caller, which ends up being a hydra of a case as the problem keeps escalating with every seeming solution. In this one Hurwitz expands Evan’s personal world, with a larger role for…

Man alive is there anything better than travelling solo to a developing city whilst deep in the throes of an assassin novel? Read this one while touring parts of Java. And while the book’s setting of urban America didn’t exactly correlate with the jungle, temples and luwak coffee, Evan Smoak’s solo approach in a crowd…

Things come to a head in the battle between Van Sciver and Evan Smoak in Hellbent. Evan receives a cryptic message from his old handler and father figure, Jack. The message leads him to a girl and the remaining orphans from the program. Has all the hallmarks of a Bingeable modern streaming series – easy…

Evan’s struggles to survive continue in the second book of the Orphan X series. At least in this one he gets something a break from Van Sciver, because The Nowhere Man has gone and got himself captured by an eccentric rich man. Which just highlights my issue with Evan. For a seemingly best-of-the-best world class…

I had never heard of this series when I picked up the seventh book, Dark Horse, because the cover looked cool. Even then there was little indication it was a series, so I bought it. And woah, the cover did not lie – it WAS cool! Imagine how delighted I was to learn there were…

Book #7 in the Orphan X series, it was actually Dark Horse that set me on my journey with Evan Smoak. I walked into a bricks and mortar store, judged the book by its cover and never looked back. (Shock! Now you know I don’t necessarily write these posts in my order of reading!) Dark…