Buy a Bullet

An Orphan X Short Story

By: Gregg Hurwitz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Brought to you by Penguin.

He is known by some as Evan Smoak. To a few he is known as Orphan X. But generally he is not known at all.

Taken from a children's home as a young boy, Evan Smoak was a trained to become a government operative known as Orphan X. But then he broke with the programme.


Now living out of sight and out of reach of his former employers, Evan chances upon a young woman in a coffee shop in Northern California who needs his help. Brutalized and under the control of a very powerful, dangerous man, she knows her life is at risk if she doesn't escape. And Evan knows that only a man with his particular set of skills has any chance of setting her free. His next move was never in doubt.


Buy A Bullet is the story of the day Orphan X became The Nowhere Man.


© Gregg Hurwitz 2017 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critic reviews

Outstanding in every way

Read this book. You will thank me later

The most gripping thriller I've read in a long, long time!

The page-turner of the season is Orphan X ... Wonderful

Memorable as hell

The most exciting thriller I've read since The Bourne Identity

A page-turning masterpiece

A new series character to rival Reacher

A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series

There is a pristine classicism to Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X, which borrows from Robert Ludlum and superhero lore to bring us Evan Smoak . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places . . . Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a modern master.

Brief as it was it still contained the suspense, thrill and excitement of a full title.

A genius suspense writer with a gripping style of writing. The narration by Scott Brick is impeccable as always!