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It all started with a simple, yet sneakily difficult challenge from global best-selling author Harlan Coben: Pick a bird of prey, then use it as the inspiration for a brand-new story. The response from some of the best writers on the planet: Game on! The result: Eleven stories that are twisty, scary, surprising and bursting with imagination. An egg worth more than its weight in gold. A mysterious operative known only as Owl. An eagle-watcher who sees more than she should. Even a story that somehow places the Maltese Falcon in a nursing home.

'Do you need my help?' It was the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage. Raised and trained in a top secret programme, he was sent to bad places to do things the government denied ever happened. Then he broke...

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 an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X - until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail.

Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family together. She’s healing from the pain of a miscarriage, he’s drowning in pressure at work, and their neurodivergent daughter, Maddy, needs all the care she can get. So when a cutting-edge tech company offers the perfect solution, they jump at the chance. And they welcome “Mr. Man”—humanoid AI companion—into their home.

Nate Overbay, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and ALS, goes to an eleventh-floor bank and climbs out the bathroom window onto the ledge, ready to end it all. But as he’s steeling himself to jump, a crew of gunmen bursts into the bank and begins viciously shooting employees and customers...

In the next book in this New York Times best-selling series, Evan Smoak takes on his most complex mission yet―one where he not only has to protect but also avenge, and find a way to balance vengeance with mercy. Once a black ops assassin for the government known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak broke...

Evan Smoak – Codename Orphan X – war der perfekte Auftragskiller einer geheimen Regierungseinheit: präzise, unsichtbar, unaufhaltsam. Heute nutzt er seine Fähigkeiten, um denen zu helfen, die keine Hilfe erwarten können. Doch als einer seiner wenigen Vertrauten ihn verrät, gerät alles ins Wanken. Tommy Stojack – Evans Waffenmeister und ältester Freund – überschreitet eine Grenze, die Evan nicht ignorieren kann.

A good job, a decent flat in Los Angeles, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smashes into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pyjamas, he's dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. He's told that a terrorist...

It was the holiday of a lifetime - a chance for Eve Hardaway to rediscover herself following the break-up of her marriage. Until Eve catches a glimpse of someone she should never have seen. She was not the first to do so. But a woman who previously laid eyes on this mysterious stranger has...

Once the U.S. government’s deadliest off-the-books assassin, Evan Smoak was known only as Orphan X. He broke free from the Program, vanished, and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man — the last hope for those with nowhere else to turn. This program is read by AudioFile Golden Voice narrator...

He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative. But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use his formidable skill set to help those unable to protect themselves. One...

Evan Smoak, a.k.a., Orphan X, grapples with his most dangerous mission yet, the latest in the bestselling series. Do you need my help? Those five words are the first thing anyone hears when they dial the encrypted line of the man known only as the Nowhere Man. For years Evan Smoak—once the...

"Brick devotes attention to every voice…His accents and inflections boost the listening experience.” —AudioFile No greater friend. No deadlier enemy. The explosive new novel in the New York Times bestselling Orphan X series is flipping the acclaimed series on its head. Find out why series...

Eine Stadt im Dunkel. Ein Mann im Schatten. Nachdem Evan Smoak in letzter Sekunde die Pläne von Menschenhändlern durchkreuzt hat, wird er selbst zur Zielscheibe. Der „Nowhere Man“ konnte zwar die 17-jährige Ana Reznian vor einem schrecklichen Schicksal bewahren, tappt jedoch selbst in die Falle. Er landet in einem höllengleichen, menschenverachtenden Gefängnis, wo jeder Fluchtversuch brutal bestraft wird. Solange, bis jede Chance auf Flucht ausgelöscht ist.

Für ein streng geheimes Programm hat die Regierung einen Waisenjungen rekrutiert und ihn zu einem Auftragskiller gemacht. Sein Name: Evan Smoak. Auch bekannt als "Orphan X." Nachdem er die Organisation hinter sich gelassen hat, lebt er nun außer Sicht- und Reichweite seiner ehemaligen Arbeitgeber. In einem Café in Nordkalifornien trifft Evan zufällig auf eine junge Frau, die seine Hilfe braucht. Ein sehr mächtiger, gefährlicher Mann hat sie brutal misshandelt und kontrolliert jeden ihrer Schritte. Die Frau weiß, dass sie sterben wird, wenn sie nicht flieht.

1. Gebot: Keine voreiligen Schlüsse. Das schwarze Satellitentelefon klingelt. Am anderen Ende ist ein Mädchen, das von einem korrupten Cop verfolgt wird. Evan Smoak wird ihr helfen. 4. Gebot: Es ist nie persönlich. Evan ist ein Absolvent des Orphan-Programms, in dem Waisenkinder zu hocheffizienten Killern ausgebildet wurden. Nach Jahren des Mordens für die Regierung ist er in den Untergrund gegangen. Er hilft nun den Verzweifelten, die nicht zur Polizei gehen können. Dabei hält er sich strikt an seine eigenen Gebote.

Joey Morales was the last recruit of the government's full black operation, the Orphan Program. Trained to be an assassin until she washed out, she was rescued by Evan Smoak, the former agent known as Orphan X. Now Joey, a world-class hacker, starts training for one of her biggest challenges yet...

Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission - and this time, the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog.

Aragon Urrea ist der Kopf eines großen Drogenhandelsunternehmens in Südtexas. Er ist auch der Mäzen der Region - er bietet Arbeitsplätze in legalen Geschäften, Hilfe für die Hilflosen, grobe Gerechtigkeit für die Unterdrückten und eine Zukunft für ein Volk, das normalerweise wenig Hoffnung hat. Er ist kompliziert - ein nicht ganz so guter Mensch, der aus oft guten Gründen schlechte Dinge tut.

Et godt job, en fin lejlighed i Los Angeles, et helt almindeligt liv. Endelig er det lykkedes Nick Horrigan at lægge fortiden og mordet på sin stedfar, Secret Service-agenten Frank, bag sig. Eller det troede han i hvert fald, lige indtil den nat han bliver vækket af et SWAT-team, der trænger ind i hans lejlighed og fører ham ud til en ventende helikopter.