Prodigal Son

An Orphan X Novel

By: Gregg Hurwitz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

"The winning combination of Gregg Hurwitz and Scott Brick returns for another action-packed listen featuring Evan Smoak...Brick is so convincing at embodying Smoak that listeners will be forgiven for thinking they too could take on four bad guys to protect a good guy in need of help." -- AudioFile Magazine

*This program contains a deep dive into the character and history of Tommy Stojack, featuring Gregg Hurwitz and fans of the Orphan X series.*

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed—in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X audiobook from Gregg Hurwitz.

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 given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew—his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran—a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran’s only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he’s fought for is on the line—including his own life.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

So amazing

This book is just fantastic. The action is thrilling and the personal moments made me laugh out loud and hit me right in the heart. I unfortunately blew through this book in 2 sittings so now I'm a bit sad.

Prodigal Son

I love Orphan X and hope he comes back in another book. Greg Hurwitz’s technical writing is downright spooky. I really hope it is far out fiction. But I fear not.
I absolutely love Scott Brick’s narrative. Scott doing a precocious teenage girl Joey ribbing Evan is hysterical.
Love Evan contemplating family and how it messes with his OCD.
Listen to this. It’s truly fun, freaky, edge of your seat, good listening.

Deer in the Headlights

Another amazing hit by Gregg Hurwitz and narration by the awesome Scott Brick. I even here Brick's voice when I read quotes from the series.

I am so glad that after the phone call ending from the last book, Into The Fire, it was front and center early in this book. Definitely fun to see the very precise & rule following Evan get thrown by his family, DNA & not, and friends from the past and present. Opens up a whole new side to the super hero.

Evan's extra curricular hobbies had me in stitches and spewing my water on several occasions. I also love Joey & Tommy getting to know a little more about each other, it was adorable in a Joey & Tommy kind of way.

For fun, look up Evan's alias', can't believe I didn't notice this before and check out the tech discussed in the book, you will know the one.

After listening to the ending multiple times I cannot wait until the next book.

A little bit of a letdown...

I’ve loved every book so far in this series I’ve probably listened to them all 3+ times, but this one was a bit of a snooze. There were some exciting things but it lacked the easy flow all of the other books had. It almost felt like a forced storyline. We usually get left on a slight cliffhanger; this one was almost too much. I still love the series/narrator enough to preorder the next one that comes out.

Best of the best!!

Ok in all fairness I’m about an hour and half or so from the end. But I feel safe saying this is the best of the best so far. It’s so good. Idk who is going to be still standing when the credits roll on this one but fingers crossed some of the new emotional support for X will make through to the next which I see is coming in February