Into the Fire
by Gregg Hurwitz
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Pub Date 20 Feb 2020 | Archive Date 23 Feb 2020
Penguin UK - Michael Joseph | Michael Joseph
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Description
Evan Smoak lives by his own code. As a boy he was taken from a foster home to be raised and trained as an off-the books government assassin codenamed Orphan X. Then he broke free to live in the shadows as The Nowhere Man, using his unique skills to help those in desperate need.
But all good things come to end. Pardoned and forced into retirement he thought his killing days were over. And then he met Max Merriweather ...
Max Merriweather hasn't got much left to lose. His marriage has collapsed, his career is on the rocks, and his family despises him. He's the last person you'd entrust with a deadly secret. Which is why his cousin gave him an envelope with the instruction: 'if anything ever happens to me, call the number inside'. Now his cousin is dead Max's own chances of survival look bleak. But, stalked by death, Max meets the one man who might save him: Evan Smoak ...
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780718185510 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 400 |
Featured Reviews
Dave B, Reviewer
Into The Fire is the latest in Gregg Hurwitz's very popular Orphan X series with and ending that suggests that it may be the last....or may not be.
The start of the book sees Evan Smoak considering his future and deciding to take one last job, ,protecting self-labelled "loser" Max Merriweather from the people who murdered his cousin Grant and are now coming after him.. Max is a person who hasn't had much luck in life but coming home to find a psychotic hit man trashing his apartment is a bad day even by his standards.
What appears to be a fairly straightforward "operation" for Smoak turns out to be only the beginning of a rapidly escalating situation who finds himself in ever more perilous situations after believing he's finally take out all of the the bad guys only for more to appear and a much bigger picture to emerge a bit like levels in a computer game .
Max's private life runs as a backstory , it is relevant to the wider tale and it quite moving which adds a touch of contrast to the ongoing mayhem that.as ever ,the main story is a litany of. What seems to a simple case turns into, literally, a bit of a headache for Smoak and a bit of arson in one scene proves that there really is no Smoak without fire.
For those who haven't read the rest of the Orphan X books there's enough back story to make sense of the whole thing while not bogging down with too much detail of previous events to a degree that would annoy those who have very sensibly followed Smoak's odyssey from page one of the first book..
Smoak is a bit of an amalgamation with touches of Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher (with more than a nod towards "One Shot" in one section) and even Batman thrown into the mix. Teenage sidekick and computer whizzkid Joey plays a big part in this story ,and is a great character,some great banter between them ,and new character Dog take s a bow. Dog is....a Dog,which I guess keeps things simple.
A very entertaining read and a book that has a lot of violence,plenty of humour and even a bit of a love story, Another best-seller for Gregg Hurwitz and a definite 5 stars.
Big thanks to Gregg Hurwitz, Penguin Books and Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.
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