Dark Horse

An Orphan X Novel

By: Gregg Hurwitz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

The New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever in Gregg Hurwitz's Dark Horse.

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the author and Jack Carr.

Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. 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. But one finds him anyway.

Aragon Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas. He's also the patron of the local area—suppyling employment in legitimate operations, providing help to the helpless, a rough justice to the downtrodden, and a future to a people normally with little hope. He's complicated—a not completely good man, who does bad things for often good reasons. However, for all his money and power, he is helpless when one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his innocent eighteen year old daughter, spiriting her away into the armored complex that is their headquarters in Mexico. With no other way to rescue his daughter, he turns to The Nowhere Man.

Now not only must Evan figure out how to get into the impregnable fortress of a heavily armed, deeply paranoid cartel leader, but he must decide if he should help a very bad man—no matter how just the cause.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

Hurwitz & Brick, it doesn’t get any better!!!!

This is book 7 in the Orphan. Series. Although each book can be listened to as a standalone I would suggest listening to the series in order. Each book leaves off with a cliffhanger. The following is picked up where the prior left off. It is not necessary to know what happened in the last book but if you’re like me, you’ll want to know.

In this book Evan Smoak finds himself being contacted by a man he views very much like himself. He’s either a good man who does bad things or a bad man who does good things. He’s a drug kingpin but much of his drug money goes to helping the small Texas town and the people who live there. On his daughter’s 18th birthday it appears she was kidnapped by a particularly vicious cartel in Mexico. Evan is called to retrieve her. He must infiltrate the cartel to find and retrieve her. The previous person was discovered and beheaded.

This book is wild. It’s fast paced. Requires suspension of believability a few times. The ending is quite a surprise!

Scott Brick narrates flawlessly (as always).

This book has my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.
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Good but

I love the Orphan X Series and this book was pretty good but starting to get a little to "woke" in my opinion.

wow

as always, a great story. narrator always makes or breaks an audio book. even unedited, it was fantastic!! can't wait for the next one!

Please, God, find another narrator.

Like the books, the narrator makes my skin crawl, just awful. I don’t know how anyone can stand him.

One of the best

Great story and performance. A lot of emotional scenes mixed with the usual action I’ve come to expect from X.