num_pages: 388
description: When darkness closes inhe's your last best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitzs #1 international bestselling Orphan X series. Taken from a group home at age twelve Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assetsi.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past in the Orphan Program is reaching out to him.Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President of the United States.But President Bennett knows that Orphan X is after him and using weapons of his own he's decided to counter-attack. Bennett activates the one man who has the skills and experience to track down and take out Orphan Xthe first recruit of the program Orphan A.With Evan devoting all his skills resources and intelligence to find a way through the layers of security that surround the President suddenly he also has to protect himself against the deadliest of opponents. It's Orphan vs. Orphan with the future of the countryeven the worldon the line.
language: English
title: Out of the Dark
publisher: Minotaur Books