Orphan X · Book 15
The Code
- Published
- 2 September 2025
- Pages
- 46
- ISBN-13
- 9781405992640
- Type
- short
About this book
The Code, published 2 September 2025, is the latest of Hurwitz's between-volume short stories, numbered 10.5 and issued digital-only like The List and The Recital before it. It runs 46 pages and, like the others in that strand, is optional reading that fills in supporting characters.
Its place in Orphan X
The Code is book 15 in the Orphan X series. It follows Nemesis. It is followed by Antihero. See the full Orphan X reading order.
Evan Smoak was taken from a Baltimore foster home at twelve, raised inside a black-budget government program, and trained into Orphan X — an off-the-books assassin so deniable that even the CIA barely admits he exists. When the Orphan Program turns on him, Evan goes rogue, reinvents himself as the Nowhere Man, and starts using his lethal skill set to help people with nowhere else to turn: for a single favor and a phone number passed hand to hand, he'll make one impossible problem disappear. Gregg Hurwitz — who…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405992640