Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz EPUB & PDF – eBook Details About
- Author: Gregg Hurwitz
- Genre: Assassination Thrillers, Vigilante Justice Thrillers
- Publish Date: 29 January 2019
- Size: 3 MB
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- Price: Free
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Prologue: Perennial Rain
Evan is nineteen, fresh off the plane, trained up, mission-ready. And yet
untested.
His first assignment as Orphan X.
He adjusts rapidly to this foreign place, a city with drizzly rain, imperious
ministry buildings, and men who kiss on both cheeks.
His backstop is impeccable, endorsed by visas, a well-stamped passport,
verifiable previous addresses, and phone numbers that ring to strategically
placed responders. Jack, his handler and surrogate father, has built for him a
suitably banal operational alias—enterprising young Ontarian, recently
separated from his equally young wife, eager to shepherd his family’s home-
siding business into territories unknown. He and Jack worked the identity,
kneading it like dough, until Evan was aligned with it so thoroughly that he
actually felt the sting of his domestic setback and the fire of ambition to
expand into this brave new market. Evan has learned not to act but to live his
cover. And he does his best to stash away the part of him that does not
believe his alias until the point at which he will require it.
He moves frequently around this gray city to prevent degradation of cover.
Now and then in the streets, he comes across others his age. They seem like
creatures of a different species. They don backpacks and trickle in and out of
hostels, drunkenly recounting school tales in foreign tongues. As always, he
remains separate—from them and everyone else. The United States has no
footprints in this country. There will be no rolling-car meetings, no physical
contacts from an embassy. If he fails, he will expire in a cold prison, alone
and forgotten, after decades of suffering. That is, if he’s not fortunate enough
to be executed.
One night he is meditating on a threadbare blanket in a hotel seemingly as
old as the country itself when the mustard-yellow rotary phone on the
nightstand gives off a piercing ring.
It is Jack. “May I speak to Frederick?” he says.
“There is no one here by that name,” Evan says, and hangs up.
Immediately he fires up his laptop and pirates Internet from the travel
agency across the avenue. Logging in to a specified e-mail account, he
checks the Drafts folder.
Sure enough, there’s an unsent message.
Two words: “Package waiting.” And an address near the outskirts of the
city. Nothing more.
He types beneath: “Is it a weapon?”
Hits SAVE.
A moment later the draft updates: “You’re the weapon. Everything else is
an implement.”
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