Antihero - Greg Hurwitz
Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of mayhem — as you might expect — but his latest “mission” has placed some restrictions on him, among which is a version of the biblical fifth commandment: don’t kill anyone on my behalf. Trust me; if you were in X’s Original S.W.A.T.s and knew what had happened, you’d be hard-pressed to obey that command.
It all started when whack-job power broker Luke Devine called X asking for help… actually for help on behalf of his latest mini-skirted companion. It seems that on the way to her meeting with Devine, she saw a young woman abducted from a subway car, and she wants to know what happened to her. Truth? It’s something you never want to happen to anyone you know…
Given an unidentified, vaguely described, woman taken by person or persons unknown to an undisclosed location, you’d expect problems. Well, you and I would, but X has J on his side; and Joey, 17-year-old Orphan washout megahacker that she is, finds the woman. It’s up to X to find those abductors and exact his retribution. Unfortunately, a lot more than mere abduction went on… and thus the trail of non-lethal carnage will be long and twisty. Oh, yeah, and satisfying.
Through the ten Orphan X series thrillers to date; author Greg Hurwitz has, bit by bit, given back to Evan Smoak the humanity that had originally been peeled off by the Orphan program. In Antihero, Evan will meet someone with so much humanity of her own that she can afford to share it with him. And share it she does.
Previous reviews in the Orphan X series: The Last Orphan (episode 10); Dark Horse (episode 7); Prodigal Son (episode 6)
An ARC was supplied by the publisher and NetGalley in return for my honest review.
