Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, read by Tom Weiner, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $76 ISBN 978-1-4233-8091-7
Anyone presuming that America and England have a lock on police procedurals or that Stieg Larsson set the standard for Scandinavian thrillers would do well to check out this reissue of Sjöwall and Wahlöö's cases of Insp. Martin Beck of Sweden's...
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Gregg Hurwitz. St. Martin's, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-53491-2
Hurwitz (They're Watching) masterfully provokes feelings of extreme dread in this thriller centered on Mike Wingate, who's worked his way up from the bottom to become a successful home contractor in Lost Hills, "a Valley community thirty miles...
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Gregg Hurwitz. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0312625511
Hurwitz’s hair-raising stand-alone stars an unlikely hero, 36-year-old Nate Overbay. Diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease nine months earlier, Nate is about to leap off an 11th-floor ledge of a bank building in Santa Monica, Calif., when he notices a
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Gregg Hurwitz. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-62552-8
In this thrill-packed stand-alone from Thriller Award–finalist Hurwitz (The Survivor), Daniel Brasher, a counselor working with ex-cons in San Francisco, receives an anonymous, semi-literate letter in his mailbox that reads: “admit what youv done....
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Gregg Hurwitz. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-62683-9
In this thrilling standalone from bestseller Hurwitz (Tell No Lies), L.A.-based Eve Hardaway, whose husband has recently left her for a younger woman, decides to push “beyond her comfort zone” by taking a vacation in the jungles of the Mexican state
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-06784-5
Bestseller Hurwitz (Don’t Look Back) melds nonstop action and high-tech gadgetry with an acute character study in this excellent series opener. Evan Smoak, who was trained to be an assassin under the government’s secret Orphan Program, is now a...
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Gregg Hurwitz, read by Scott Brick. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4915-5194-3
This series opener by Hurwitz (Don’t Look Back) features as its protagonist a former licensed-to-kill member of the government’s covert Orphan Program, who has been on the run from his homicidal ex-associates since he broke free. Known by his foes...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Tor Teen, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8267-2
The apocalypse comes from outer space in this unsettling thriller, first in a planned series. When a meteor strikes the small town of Creek’s Cause, it infects every resident over the age of 18, turning them into terrifying monsters working in...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-06785-2
Evan Smoak (aka the Nowhere Man), who used to be an assassin for the Orphan Program, a covert U.S. government agency, now lives in a fortified penthouse overlooking Los Angeles, in bestseller Hurwitz’s stellar sequel to 2016’s Orphan X. Evan...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-11917-9
In bestseller Hurwitz’s thrilling third Orphan X novel (after 2017’s The Nowhere Man), Evan Smoak, who once worked as an assassin for the Orphan Program, a covert U.S. government agency, and now helps people in trouble from his base in L.A.,...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-12042-7
Evan Smoak (aka Orphan X) faces his biggest challenge yet in bestseller Hurwitz’s explosive fourth Orphan X novel (after 2018’s Hellbent). Taken from a foster home at 12 and raised in the Department of Defense’s deep black ops Orphan Program, Evan...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-12045-8
In bestseller Hurwitz’s adrenaline-charged fifth Orphan X novel (after 2019’s Out of the Dark), forensic accountant Grant Merriweather leaves his cousin Max Merriweather an envelope to be delivered to an L.A. Times reporter in the event of his...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-25228-9
In bestseller Hurwitz’s engrossing sixth Orphan X novel (after 2020’s Into the Fire), former black ops assassin turned crime-fighting vigilante Evan Smoak is lured out of retirement by an unlikely individual: his mother. Given up when he was a...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-25230-2
In bestseller Hurwitz’s excellent seventh Orphan X novel (after 2021’s Prodigal Son), Aragón Urrea, a South Texas drug lord, approaches former black ops assassin Evan Smoak (aka the Nowhere Man), who assists people in seemingly hopeless situations...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-25232-6
In bestseller Hurwitz’s wild eighth Orphan X novel (after 2022’s Dark Horse), a lapse on the part of Evan Smoak (aka the Nowhere Man), who was once turned by the U.S. government into “an expendable weapon who could execute missions illegal under...
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-87173-2
Hurwitz’s creaky latest mission for former black ops assassin Evan Smoak (after The Last Orphan) finds the mercenary getting more than he bargained for when he agrees to track down a missing dog. In the years since Smoak left the shadowy U.S. Orphan
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Gregg Hurwitz. Minotaur, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-87174-9
Hurwitz’s boilerplate 10th thriller featuring master assassin Evan Smoak (after Lone Wolf) offers more of the same—for better and worse. Smoak’s traumatic youth, during which he was plucked from foster care at 12 by the U.S. Department of Defense...
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Gregg Hurwitz, read by Scott Brick. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4915-5200-1
Plots and subplots abound in the second of Hurwitz’s thrillers featuring Evan Smoak, the ultimate assassin, who now uses his killing ways and bulging bank accounts to benefit mankind while avoiding his former associates in the covert Orphan Program,
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Gregg Hurwitz, read by Scott Brick. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5226-4962-5
Actor Brick, the narrator of all three of Hurwitz’s Orphan X audiobooks, once again effectively brings the dark adventures of ex-government assassin Evan Smoak to life. Smoak, who’s atoning for his murderous past by helping those in need, is unable...
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