num_pages: 274
description: How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice? That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy. An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life he is hunted by his mentor and father figure and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run the mysterious man's life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past riddled with the darkest of conspiracies is revealed. But can the ninth-born orphan ever get off the grid? To find out you'll need to go on a tumultuous journey around the globe to such far-flung locations as China France the Philippines Andorra America England Germany and French Polynesia. The frenetic cat-and-mouse chase moves from airports to train stations and hidden torture prisons taking the reader on a shocking nail-biting ride into the world's closet of skeletons that goes beyond conspiracy theories to painful reality.
language: English
title: The Ninth Orphan
publisher: Sterling Gate Books