She faces dire consequences as the result of her overwhelming gambling debt and in an act of desperation, reaches out to the Nowhere Man for help. I've always thought that one reason for Tom Clancy's success was the endless detail he provided about military hardware, and that the James Bond novels benefited from the loving attention Ian Fleming devoted to the martinis, expensive cars and gorgeous women he so admired. Evan becomes an expert in martial arts, weaponry, acting, reading people, and the ability to blend in anywhere he goes. Joey Morales is a breath of fresh air and the perfect foil for serious Evan: every page that features Joey is pure entertainment. Each person who enlists his help must give his contact information to another person in need of his services.

A visit to Evan’s personal arms dealer, Tommy Stojack is required for some very fancy gear and, as well as the usual firearms, knives, fists and feet, weapons wielded include a pencil, a scalpel, a defibrillator, a crowbar, a fully grown lion, and a Mont Blanc fountain pen. Three years old in panties and sandals and not a stitch more, clanging pots and pans on the floor of the kitchen. The one perfect thing he’d ever had a hand in creating, and now he was haunted by her very existence—her vulnerability in a world that contained men like him.

To his neighbors, Evan is a seemingly quiet consultant of some sort living a quiet life in his penthouse condo. Unlike comparable series that tend to lose steam after several installments, this series just gets better as it evolves. Fans of Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, and Jason Bourne will LOVE Evan Smoak, and the deadly, secret world of the Orphan Program. If she reaches her destination before Evan can rescue her, she will be doomed to a life in the sex trade. Maybe that’s all aging was, an ability to see the past in the present, to comprehend the totality of a living soul all at once.

He went by “Kiki,” which, on top of his partnership with Eduardo, had saddled him with the inevitable sobriquet “Special K. In this instalment, Evan spends a good bit of time in a sewer, watches an ultrasound, is faced with numerous scenes that really challenge his control over his OCD, and is distracted from his main mission by a medical emergency involving his ongoing love interest.Bestseller Hurwitz melds non-stop action and high-tech gadgetry with an acute character study in this excellent series opener .