Sunday, March 15, 2020

Into the fire by Gregg Hurwitz

Into the fire is the fifth book in the Orphan X series, so this review contains ***SPOILERS*** if you have not read the rest of the books in the series.  This is a series that really needs to be read in order, so start with Orphan X and read the series in order.

Evan Smoak is used to keeping secrets and hiding himself behind a façade - first as Orphan X, and more recently as the Nowhere Man.  Playing a role is more natural than being himself, and the longer he keeps up his walls, the harder it is for him to make connections with those around him.  After taking out the President of the United States, he might finally have a chance to be free of his past, a fresh start leaving Orphan X behind forever - but is he also ready to leave the Nowhere Man behind?  The test of his resolve comes when he gets a call from Max Merriweather, whose cousin dropped him in the middle of a dangerous game of cat and mouse. 

When Grant is brutally tortured and murdered he spills the beans that he gave an insurance policy to his cousin, and now Max is the target, unless the Nowhere Man can help him.  With his apartment trashed, and not wanting to put Grant's family in more danger, Max is willing to follow Evan's instructions to go underground, but instead of solving the case straight away, Evan finds himself travelling down a rabbit warren of a conspiracy within a conspiracy, wrapped up in secrets and dangerous enemies that will stop at nothing to get what they want - and they desperately want what Max has.  When Evan is injured it makes his job infinitely more dangerous, and with people counting on him he has no time to recover.  In what might be his most dangerous case to date, the Nowhere Man will have to risk it all to get results - and the cost might be higher than he can bear if he doesn't get to the bottom of the conspiracy.

The Orphan X series has been a surprising find for me, I don't normally read pure thrillers but I saw Orphan X in a bookshop and the cover looked really interesting, and then the blurb was intriguing so I requested a copy and read it thinking I would recommend it to my brother (which I did), but I have been devouring the series ever since.  The pace of the action is spot on, keeping up a good pace that keeps everything moving without moving so fast that it feels like things are moving too quickly.  The action scenes are slick and well thought out, and the characters are well developed and all too easy to care about.  Evan is a complex character and feels realistic for what he has been through and what he does, and the other characters add depth and reality to the series.  This is a superb series and I can't wait to the next one comes out!

If you like this book then try:
  • Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
  • The killing kind by Chris Holm
  • The spider heist by Jason Kasper
  • Breaking Creed by Alex Kava
  • The Postcard killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
  • Eeny meeny by M.J. Arlidge
  • Truth or die by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
  • Spare me the truth by C.J. Carver
  • Dead secret by Ava McCarthy
  • Never never by James Patterson and Candice Fox
  • Darkly dreaming Dexter by Jeffry P. Lindsay
  • Kiss the girls by James Patterson
  • Kill me if you can by James Patterson and Marshall Kamp

Reviewed by Brilla

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