Where to Start with Gregg Hurwitz
- Best entry point → Orphan X
- Best standalone → The Crime Writer
- Start the Orphan X #10.5 series → The Code: An Orphan X Short Story: Orphan X
- What fans keep coming back to → The Nowhere Man
- Highest rated by listeners → Hellbent (Orphan X #3)
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Orphan X
Orphan X • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.50 ABR Score (82.4K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (56.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (25.7K)More about this pick
Evan Smoak helps desperate people who have nowhere else to turn, but his assassin past refuses to stay buried. Brick captures both the character's lethal skills and unexpected compassion.
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Hellbent
Orphan X • Book 3
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.73 ABR Score (38.1K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (25.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (12.8K)More about this pick
The Nowhere Man faces his past when his surrogate father Jack Johns is targeted for knowing too much about the secret Orphan X assassination program.
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The Nowhere Man
Orphan X • Book 2
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.46 ABR Score (45.1K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (32.0K) ★ 4.52 Audible (13.1K)More about this pick
Former government assassin Evan Smoak is captured and tortured, forcing him to escape while protecting those he's sworn to help. Scott Brick's intense performance matches the relentless action of this sequel.
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Lone Wolf
Orphan X • Book 9
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.54 ABR Score (16.3K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (13.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
Evan Smoak faces his most personal mission yet as Orphan X in Hurwitz's ninth installment of vigilante justice. Scott Brick's familiarity with the series adds depth to every action sequence.
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Buy a Bullet
Orphan X #1.5 • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.17 ABR Score (9.9K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (6.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (3.9K)More about this pick
Before becoming the Nowhere Man, Evan Smoak completes his first unofficial rescue mission in Northern California. This Orphan X prequel shows how a trained assassin transitions into an underground guardian for the desperate.
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Nemesis
Orphan X • Book 10
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.41 ABR Score (12.9K ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 4.54 Audible (2.7K)More about this pick
Evan Smoak faces his greatest threat yet when his oldest friend Tommy becomes his enemy, shattering the assassin's moral code. Another solid Scott Brick performance in this explosive series finale.
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The Last Orphan
Orphan X • Book 8
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.43 ABR Score (17.5K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (15.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (2.2K)More about this pick
Evan Smoak faces his deadliest challenge when the Orphan program's secrets threaten everyone he's tried to protect. Scott Brick brings intensity to every action sequence and emotional weight to Evan's final confrontation with his past.
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The Crime Writer
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.94 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (3.7K) ★ 4.21 Audible (3.8K)More about this pick
Crime novelist Drew Danner wakes up in a hospital with memory loss, discovered holding a knife over his ex-fiancée's bloody corpse. Scott Brick's tense narration matches this psychological thriller's paranoid atmosphere perfectly.
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The Recital
Orphan X #8.5 • Book 8
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.45 ABR Score (3.9K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (3.0K) ★ 4.79 Audible (892)More about this pick
Teenage hacker Joey trades assassination training for piano lessons in this brief but touching glimpse into finding normalcy after a violent past. Scott Brick's warm reading fits the story's hopeful tone.
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Antihero
Orphan X • Book 11
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.28 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)★ 4.46 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.47 Audible (492)More about this pick
Former Orphan X assassin Evan Smoak faces his most complex mission yet, balancing vengeance with mercy in ways that challenge every operational rule.
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The Code: An Orphan X Short Story: Orphan X
Orphan X #10.5
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.19 ABR Score (1.7K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (353)More about this pick
Scott Brick captures seventeen-year-old Evan's transformation during the most brutal military training, long before he became the whispered legend Orphan X.
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