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'''Richard and Judy Book Club Autumn 2016'''
1-855-2-Nowhere is the number you can call when you're in danger. The only payment needed for a very violent but terminal solution is that you pass the number on to someone else in trouble. Evan Smoak, the man attached to the phone number, has been trained. A strategic thinker and total expert in the fields of espionage and killing, he was kidnapped as a pre-teen to take part in a covert programme. That was long ago though and now life is different. Normally everything runs like clockwork but one day that clock stops and a countdown of a different sort begins. Evan is Orphan X and Orphan X is himself in trouble.
Gregg leaves the greatest shock and the greatest joy until the book's epilogue. The greatest shock… I'll leave that to you to discover. The greatest joy? It's a first-in-series! Hopefully there's time to recharge my pacemaker battery before the next instalment comes out. If not, I'm more than happy to take my chances.
(Thank you so much, the folks at Michael Joseph, for providing us with a copy for review. We also have a review of [[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]].)
Further Reading: If you'd like some suggestions for loveable hero thrillers, then [[Make Me by Lee Child]] featuring the iconic Jack Reacher is right up there. If you prefer the slow burning but highly satisfying espionage thriller, we just as highly recommend [[Exposure by Helen Dunmore]].
