2-3-4 Challenge discussion

We will begin reading the series in October 2022 and will read one book a month until completion.

About the Series
The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them.

But he’s not merely a legend.

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. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan 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.

Series List

About the Author
Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 23 thrillers, including the Orphan X series, and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been published in 33 languages. Hurwitz currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW).

Hurwitz has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios (including Sweet Girl and The Book of Henry), and written, developed, and produced television for various networks. He is also a New York Times bestselling comic book writer, having penned stories for AWA (Knighted), Marvel (Wolverine, Punisher) and DC (Batman, Penguin). He has published poetry, 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.

Additionally, Hurwitz is actively working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end, he's produced several hundred commercials which got over a hundred million views on digital and TV platforms, and won multiple American Advertising Awards (Addys) for creative digital political commercials. His editorial pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Bulwark, and others.

Author’s Website: https://gregghurwitz.net/

Reading Order
1. Orphan X - October Book Discussion
1.5. Buy a Bullet - November Book Discussion
2. The Nowhere Man - December Book Discussion
3. Hellbent - January Book Discussion
3.5. The Intern - February Book Discussion
4. Out of the Dark - March Book Discussion
5. Into the Fire - April Book Discussion
5.5. The List - July Book Discussion
6. Prodigal Son - August Book Discussion
7. Dark Horse - September Book Discussion
8. The Last Orphan - October Book Discussion

Who’s joining in?

I am I'm looking forward to starting. I've had book 1 forever

Me, too, Shelby. I’ve collected all of the books!

It's a great series Jonetta! I have read them all so I won't be joining this one.

Thanks, Phrynne!

I'm in ~ I've listened to the first two recently. They are so good!!

Perfect!

I have ordered it.

Great!

I'm in. I have the first book. It was my X challenge for last year. It looks like the library has most of the others.

Wonderful!

They are also on Kindle Unlimited if that helps anyone

I'm still thinking on it. I have so many books I want to read (and already own) and starting another series makes that list longer. Since it is only 8 books, I'll see what my local used book store has and go from there.

Fingers crossed 🤞

Oh, what the heck...it's just one more series, right?

But of course! Great news.

Since the first few are on Kindle Unlimited, I'll read those with you guys. Hopefully by then the library list will be shorter. These books are popular and it looks like the wait list is at least 6 months.

Wonderful and fingers crossed 🤞 the library audiobooks free up soon.

Scribd has the audiobook, so I will give it a try.

Yay!

Charlene wrote: "Oh, what the heck...it's just one more series, right?"

I know, right? :-)

is currently $1.99 on kindle (book #5)
Just an FYI - currently only books 1-4 are KU avail and first 2 are KU w/audio as well.
Scribd does (currently) have audio through #6 Prodigal Son

Thanks, Melissa!

FYI, Hurwitz released a novella last week called The Recital! I didn’t know until the day of release.