Prodigal Son

An Orphan X Novel , #6

Hardcover, 432 pages

English language

Published Jan. 25, 2021 by Minotaur Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-25228-9
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3 stars (1 review)

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed.

As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name – The Nowhere Man―and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer - in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he’s least equipped to do—live a normal life.

But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have …

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reviewed Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X, #6)

Felt lazy, poorly edited and relied on too many boring thriller/drama tropes

3 stars

Not the best Orphan X novel, to be honest; it feels more like it's just there to bridge between the last book and the next rather than saying anything important about Evan or any of the other characters as people, despite what the prose might have you believe.

It's nice to imagine that Evan wants to be a regular person with real emotions, but we barely ever get to see him try, other than a few musings about getting drunk and working out less early on. Also, the loose ends basically wrapped up themselves - the Gentner siblings especially. Lazy and overdone, in my opinion - the comparison between a soap opera and the events of the plot is literally made in the book itself so I guess I don't even have to go there. Don't even get me started on Andre and Veronica. It all felt meaningless and disposable. …

Subjects

  • Thriller
  • Suspense
  • Action
  • Crime