Gregg Hurwitz

Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times best-selling author of 20 thrillers, including "Out of the Dark," and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists and have been published in 30 languages.

Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios and written, developed, and produced television for various networks. He is also a New York Times Best-selling comic book writer, having penned stories for Marvel and DC. He has published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare, taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and internationally. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swum with sharks in the Galápagos and gone undercover into mind-control cults.

Gregg Hurwitz received his BA from Harvard and a master’s from Trinity College. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow.

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Out of the Dark: An Orphan X Novel

Mystery / Thrillers
Minotaur Books
January 2019
ISBN 9781250120427
400 pages
$27.99, NYP

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When darkness closes in—he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz’s #1 international bestselling Orphan X series. Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past in the Orphan Program is reaching out to him. Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed, he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President of the United States. But President Bennett knows that Orphan X is after him and, using weapons of his own, he's decided to counter-attack. Bennett activates the one man who has the skills and experience to track down and take out Orphan X—the first recruit of the program, Orphan A. With Evan devoting all his skills, resources, and intelligence to find a way through the layers of security that surround the President, suddenly he also has to protect himself against the deadliest of opponents. It's Orphan vs. Orphan with the future of the country—even the world—on the line. More/less