Brilliance Audio Review of Out Of The Dark by Gregg Hurwitz Orphan X #4

Those who follow my reviews know that I started my Orphan X experience with book #6 Prodigal Son and was so impressed that I went back to the beginning. I've been eating up all the novels in the past while indulging in a new release when they come out too. This is my Brilliance Audio review of #4 Out of The Dark.
See what made this one of my all time faves
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ASIN: B07JP4ZSXD
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Release Date: 01-19-2019
Length: 12 hours- 49 minutes
Source: Audible Purchase
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Overview:

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

"This novel will be remembered as one of the best thrillers of the year." --Associated Press

"A shocking stunner in every way. The perfect thriller." --Robert Crais

When darkness closes in - he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz’s #1 international bestselling Orphan X series in Out of the Dark.

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 assets - i.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 is catching up 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 X - the 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 country - even the world - on the line.

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Brilliance Publishing · Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz

My Brilliance Audio Review:

Out of The Dark
Orphan X book #4
Gregg Hurwitz 

Out of the Dark book 4 in Gregg Hurwitz’s explosive Orphan X series is one of the most terrifying novels I’ve ever read, and this series is full of jaw-dropping, heart-thumping, adrenaline filled pages but there’s just something especially hair-raising when the President of the United States is the villain, ordering assassinations of his own people. And this novel is also special because Orphan V aka Candy McClure and Orphan dropout and last recruit Joey Morales play major roles in this installment making Evan more vulnerable and more human realizing he needs his albeit small village to complete this impossible mission. Plus this is the first time we meet one of his legitimate nemeses Secret Service agent Naomi Templeton. From page one until the daunting end of this fast-paced, nail-biting novel readers will get non-stop death and destruction, actions and scenes that are almost beyond conceivability but that will leave them breathless and reaching for book 5. Fans of this super series will stay up until the wee hours to finish this absolutely unputdownable novel.

Narration:
Scott Brick is as always what makes listening to this series the best way to experience it. His soft spoken performance brings every sentence and every scene to life for the listening audience. He is Evan Smoak and expertly changes personas for every player in the novel.

There’s only one thing to do when the most powerful man on earth is trying to kill you, kill him first. It seems the current President and once leader of the Department of Defense and head of the black ops Orphan project is trying to wipe all the evidence of the project off the face of the earth by eliminating all the ex-orphans. But POTUS went too far when he arranged Jack Johns’ death, Orphan X’s handler and the man he thought of as a father and that put the X right between the President’s eyes. When Evan Smoak left Orphan X behind he became The Nowhere Man a ghost who moves through the world helping people who have nothing left to loose and nowhere left to turn and he’s got a client to avenge but he’s also got the President to kill and he is realizing he might not be able to handle it all alone, but who does a man who works alone turn to and who he can trust when he needs help.

About the author:
Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 23 thrillers, including the Orphan X series, and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been published in 33 languages. Gregg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW).