Toledo Lucas County Public Library welcome s Gregg Hurwitz to Toledo!
\nABOUT THE BOOK:
\nIn the next explosive novel in this New York T imes bestselling series\, Evan Smoak\, having shaped his life with a rigid set of rules\, finds himself at odds with his oldest friend in the world\ , where principles are in conflict with honor -- and everyone is the loser .
\nEvan Smoak was once a highly successful black ops assassin known as Orphan X\, dedicated to a rigid set of operational rules. Even after g oing deep underground and remaking his life\, Evan remains dedicated to hi s unbreakable code. But for the first time in his life\, those principles have put him on a collision course with the man who might be his best frie nd in the world\, Tommy Stojack.
\nStojack\, a gifted gunsmith who h as created much of Evan's own weapons and combat gear\, has apparently cro ssed one of Evan's sharply delineated lines. When Evan decides to have it out with Tommy\, Evan is ambushed by a skilled crew of killers determined to take him down. But Evan is hard to kill and the dispute explodes into o pen warfare between Evan and Tommy. Now Evan has no choice but to track do wn and face his only friend.
\nIn the meantime\, Tommy has already l eft town in order to honor an old promise to a Navy friend who died in his arms. His mission is to help his dead friend's son. In a depressed rural area\, with conflicts flaring up everywhere\, that son could be responsibl e for the death of an innocent. And while Tommy is trying to keep him and his friends alive\, Evan arrives with vengeance in mind.
\nBut as de adly as the former Orphan X is\, Evan isn't even the most dangerous threat to arrive on the scene.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<
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Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times\, #1 internationally bestselli ng author of 24 thrillers\, including the Orphan X series\, and two award- winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary a wards\, graced top ten lists\, and have been published in 33 languages. Gr egg currently serves as the Co-President of International Thriller Writers (ITW).
\nGregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios (including SWEET GIRL and THE BOOK OF HENRY)\, a nd written\, developed\, and produced television for various networks. He is also a New York Times bestselling comic book writer\, having penned sto ries for AWA (Knighted and the critically acclaimed anthology NewThink)\, Marvel (Wolverine\, Punisher) and DC (Batman\, Penguin). He has published poetry\, numerous academic articles on Shakespeare\, taught fiction writin g in the USC English Department\, and guest lectured for UCLA\, and for Ha rvard in the United States and internationally. In 2022\, he helped write the opening ceremony of the World Cup. In the course of researching his th rillers\, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs\, swum wit h sharks in the Galá\;pagos\, and gone undercover into mind-control cults.
\nCurrently\, Gregg is actively working against polarization in politics and culture. To that end\, he's produced several hundred comme rcials and creative content which have gotten several hundred million view s on digital TV platforms. His editorial pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, The Guardian\, The Huffington Post\, The Bulwark\, The Te legraph\, Salon\, and others.
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ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
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The moderated conversation will last about forty-five m inutes and be followed by a brief question and answer.
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