This Time, Death Rode a Dark Horse

Dark Horse - Gregg Hurwitz

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare… Aragon Urrea came home from an errand and found his 18-year-old daughter Angelina gone. Kidnapped by a business rival, sort of; but when that rival is the head of the most brutal narcotics cartel in northern Mexico, you cannot call the Feds. What’s a father to do? Urrea picked up the phone and dialed 1-800-NOWHERE… and Evan Smoak answered with that signature phrase, “Do you need my help?”

Smoak, once known as Orphan X, has a lot of atoning to do for years as a black ops government assassin; and the persona of The Nowhere Man is his method. X is the last resort for innocent people who are in a hell of someone else’s making. But this time, the Nowhere Man isn’t certain that Urrea qualifies as worthy of his help. It takes some persuading, but a few days later he finds himself inside a stereotypical lavish cartel compound with the missing Angelina, a man-eating lion, and a big surprise.

No ordinary man could rescue Angelina from the clutches of two-score cartel soldiers under the leadership of a bona fide psychopath by fighting his way out of a palace-slash-fortress, but Orphan X isn’t your ordinary man.

The seventh Orphan X novel from the pen of Gregg Hurwitz, Dark Horse marks another step on Evan Smoak’s journey to being a normal human: learning to care for another person. Evan never lets that get in the way, however, as he lays waste to his enemies through a masterful combination of subterfuge and martial skill. Few authors are as adept as Hurwitz at plotting an operation like the one X must mount to extract Angelina; and the action will keep you on the edge of your seat with a pulse rate approaching target heart rate. 

If you haven’t read Orphan X before, you’d be wise to catch up. You’re only six cliff-hangers behind!

I received an advance reader's copy of Dark Horse in exchange for my honest review

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