Description:

Once a black ops government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the Program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Now struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission – and this time, the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog.

Not his usual mission, and not one Evan embraces with enthusiasm, but this unlikely, tiny job quickly explodes into his biggest mission yet, one that finds him battered between twisted AI technocrat billionaires, a mysterious female assassin who seems a mirror of himself, and personal stakes so gut-wrenching he can scarcely make sense of them.

Evan’s mission pushes him to his limit – he must find and take down the assassin known only as the Wolf, before she succeeds in completing her mission and killing the people who can identify her – a teenaged daughter of her last target, and Evan himself. Matched skill for skill, instinct for instinct, Evan must outwit an opponent who will literally stop at nothing if he is to survive.

Adele’s Review:

Gregg Hurwitz has written one of the best action series of all time and I wonder when his amazing character Evan Smoak, aka Orphan X, aka The Nowhere Man, will arrive on the big screen. Until then, I’ll continue to anticipate and devour each book in the series. The stories are so compelling they’re worth reading at least twice.

Hurwitz’s newest offering Lone Wolf is no exception. The tale opens simply enough–the Nowhere Man is asked to find a lost dog–which is about ten million notches below his well-honed capabilities, but then the story expands and tightens while the stakes raise higher and higher until the reader is gripping the book so tight the hands ache. Yes, it’s that good.

If action thrillers involving murder and subterfuge are for you, Lone Wolf offers these adrenaline rushes, along with something much more terrifying–the bone chilling details about Artificial Intelligence (AI), tech moguls and their algorithms, and how they will ultimately control all of us, all the time. The painted picture is more frightening than any horror movie.

Evan Smoak, The Nowhere Man, faces the tech geniuses head-on in Lone Wolf. Evan never ceases to impress and amaze with his insight, skill, and ability to balance ruthlessness with a modicum of compassion. He’s an assassin taught by his trainer to maintain his humanity, if not his conscience. That nearly impossible balance is at the heart of every mission Evan takes, and his success is one reason this Five Star series continues to be exceptional.

I highly recommend that readers start with the first book in the series, Orphan X, and pick up any or all of the subsequent books to follow Evan’s character arc. If you love gritty action heroes, like I do, this series is bound to thrill, entertain, and stay with you. Don’t miss this series.

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6026400727

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1X7TWZF