Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz

Orphan X takes on a cartel to save a kidnapped girl

Good condition – light cover and edge wear, price sticker on front cover, visible page-edge discolouration and light spotting to some opening pages

Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program; after breaking with it, he adopted a new mission as the Nowhere Man, helping the desperate when they have nowhere else to turn. Having just survived an attack on his life and the destruction of his base of operations, Evan isn't interested in taking on a new mission, but one finds him anyway. Aragon Urrea, a South Texas drug kingpin who is also patron and protector of his local community, needs help getting his daughter back after she's abducted by a rival cartel across the border. It's a case that pushes hard against everything Evan usually stands for, forcing him into the most morally complicated and physically punishing mission of his career. Gregg Hurwitz's seventh Orphan X thriller pushes Evan Smoak's code, and his loyalties, to their absolute limit.