Orphan X · Book 17
The Damage Man
- Published
- 1 September 2026
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN-13
- 9781250469465
- Type
- short
About this book
The Damage Man, published 1 September 2026, is the latest Orphan X short story, numbered 11.5 between Antihero (11) and the next full novel, Last Man Standing (12). Evan Smoak agrees to help a desperate father find his estranged son, a case that turns personal as it brushes against Evan's own birth father. It runs 64 pages and, like the earlier between-volume stories, is optional reading that fills in supporting threads rather than the main numbered plot.
Its place in Orphan X
The Damage Man is book 17 in the Orphan X series. It follows 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 9781250469465