Buy a Bullet (A free Orphan X ebook short story)

AN EXCLUSIVE EBOOK SHORT STORY, NOT A FULL-LENGTH NOVEL. Taken from a children’s home as a young boy, Evan Smoak was a trained to become a government operative known as Orphan X. But then he broke with the programme.Now living out of sight and out of reach of his former employers, Evan chances upon a young woman in a coffee shop in Northern California who needs his help. Brutalized and under the control of a very powerful, dangerous man, she knows her life is at risk if she doesn’t escape. And Evan knows that only a man with his particular set of skills has any chance of setting her free. His next move was never in doubt.Buy A Bullet is the story of the day Orphan X became The Nowhere Man.Praise for Orphan X:’Outstanding in every way’ LEE CHILD’Read this book. You will thank me later’DAVID BALDACCI’The most gripping thriller I’ve read in a long, long time!’ TESS GERRITSEN’The page-turner of the season is Orphan X … Wonderful’THE TIMES’Memorable as hell’JAMES PATTERSON’The most exciting thriller I’ve read since The Bourne Identity’ ROBERT CRAIS’A page-turning masterpiece’ JONATHAN KELLERMAN’A new series character to rival Reacher’INDEPENDENT’A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series’ DAILY MAIL’There is a pristine classicism to Gregg Hurwitz’s Orphan X, which borrows from Robert Ludlum and superhero lore to bring us Evan Smoak . . . Orphan X is tight and tense in all the right places . . . Orphan X is weapons-grade thriller-writing from a modern master.’ GUARDIAN’Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense’ HARLAN COBEN’Orphan X is not good. Orphan X is great. Whatever you like best in a thriller – action, plot, character, suspense – Orphan X has it’SIMON TOYNE’Mind blowing! A perfect mix of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher’LISA GARDNER’Bond, Frodo, Paddington Bear – some of literature’s greatest heroes have been orphans. Add Orphan X’s Evan Smoak to the list’SHORTLIST’Orphan X is outstanding . . . a smart, stylish, state-of-the-art thriller’WASHINGTON POST’Bestseller Hurwitz melds non-stop action and high-tech gadgetry with an acute character study in this excellent series opener . . . Evan Smoak is an electrifying character’PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY’A masterpiece of suspense and thrills . . . Turn off the real world and dive into this amazing start to a new series’ASSOCIATED PRESS]]>