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Chipped nails from working the sorghum fields, jeans with dirt stains at the knees, sun damage ripening his middle-aged face into that of a septuagenarian.
With no ties to family or the outside world, the orphans of the program were perfect operatives who could provide plausible deniability and be removed and executed without anyone noticing in the event of a mistake. Chucho slid himself forward, elbows finding his knees, his eyes rising only far enough to take in the tips of Aragón’s boots.
Dark Horse is the seventh book in the Orphan X series by best-selling American author, Gregg Hurwitz. A visit to Evan’s personal arms dealer, Tommy Stojack is required for some very fancy gear and, as well as the usual firearms, knives, fists and feet, weapons wielded include a pencil, a scalpel, a defibrillator, a crowbar, a fully grown lion, and a Mont Blanc fountain pen. She was curled into her mother’s side, feet drawn beneath her, her face pressed to the ledge of her mother’s bosom. The book follows his thought process as he refers back to his training in the Orphan program to escape his captors while evading Van Scriven and the other members of the Orphan program. As the Nowhere Man, Evan is able to utilize his skills and unlimited financial resources to help those in desperation with nowhere else to turn.
Hurwitz has written, developed and produced for television and written screen plays for the adaptations of many of his books. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. At the tiny movement, the lead singer stopped in mid-chorus, the music severed with guillotine finality. When he eventually connects with Anjelina Urrea, there’s a wrinkle in the situation that need a massive alteration of his plans. Kiki held his head tilted back as always, either in an assumed air of righteousness or to smooth out the rolls of his chin.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. Fans of Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, and Jason Bourne will LOVE Evan Smoak, and the deadly, secret world of the Orphan Program.
In the first book, Evan is going about his life as the Nowhere Man and finds himself working with a woman in the midst of a life-and-death situation.The one perfect thing he’d ever had a hand in creating, and now he was haunted by her very existence—her vulnerability in a world that contained men like him. He went by “Kiki,” which, on top of his partnership with Eduardo, had saddled him with the inevitable sobriquet “Special K. All that beautiful brown skin and the scent of cologne in the air and everyone hanging on his next movement. A number of boys surrounded her and clapped, but none dared ask her to dance, not with Aragón under the same roof overseeing the festivities with stern paternalism and an aquiline profile worthy of a coin.