Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel [Paperback]

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existedinProdigal Son, the nextNew York Timesbestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz.

As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new nameThe Nowhere Manand a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offerin exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing hes least equipped to dolive a normal life.

But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knewhis mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Durana man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Durans only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything hes fought for is on the lineincluding his own life.

GREGG HURWITZ is theNew York Timesbestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the #1 international bestsellerOrphan X, the first in a series of thrillers featuring Evan Smoak. He has also written young adult novels:The Rainsand its sequel,The Last Chance. Hurwitz's books have been shortlisted for numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been translated into twenty-eight languages.

Hurwitz is also aNew York Timesbestselling comic book writer, having pennlsÁ