Loving this cover: Orphan X

Orphan X by Gregg Hurtwitz

Awhile ago I came across Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz with a rather humdrum cover you can see at  this link. It’s actually a rather good X-Files book cover, but not for a story about an orphan, now assassin who discovers someone is after him — someone who knows he’s Orphan X. Then I found the cover above and my excitement for this book just increased 10-fold — the shadowy figure with the gun almost taking over the cover… see, I want this more now.

Check out the blurb:

“Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I’ve read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you’ll not soon forget!” -Tess Gerritsen

The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

But he’s no legend.

Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as part of the off-the-books black box Orphan program, designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. He was Orphan X. Evan broke with the program, using everything he learned to disappear.

Now, however, someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training. Someone who knows Orphan X. Someone who is getting closer and closer. And will exploit Evan’s weakness—his work as The Nowhere Man—to find him and eliminate him. Grabbing the reader from the very first page, Orphan X is a masterful thriller, the first in Gregg Hurwitz’s electrifying new series featuring Evan Smoak.

What do you think of this cover? 

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