The Recital

A SHORT STORY FROM THE WORLD OF ORPHAN X The Orphan Program-which recruited and trained off-the-books assassins for the government-was responsible for creating some of the world's most dangerous individuals. Evan Smoak, also known as Orphan X, is one of the few still surviving. Josephine "Joey" Morales was the last recruit of the program, now a world-class hacker. Still a teenager, trying to learn how to live as a normal person in the world, she sends Evan on his most unusual mission yet for which he must recruit some of the most elusive and deadly individuals: Candy McClure (Orphan V), Tommy Stojack (black market gunsmith), and Arragón Urea (former drug kingpin). Their help doesn't come free. But Evan will face whatever danger he has to help Joey face her own greatest fears in The Recital.

Gregg Hurwitz is the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Evan Smoak thrillers Orphan X, The Nowhere Man, Hellbent, Out of the Dark, Into the Fire, Prodigal Son, Dark Horse and The Last Orphan. He is also the author of You're Next, The Survivor, Tell No Lies and Don't Look Back. He lives with his family in LA, where he also writes for the screen, TV and comics.