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Vick Mickunas 2021 interview with Gregg Hurwitz
Gregg Hurwitz returned to the show to discuss his latest Orphan X thriller. The title, Prodigal Son, provides a hint of what to anticipate in this one. The author s protagonist, Evan Smoak, has a back story that prominently employs the device of his orphanhood. He was rescued from a bad situation as a boy and then underwent extensive training to transform him into an assassin who was working for the government in a top secret program. Smoak has no memories of his parents. If he has any siblings he is not aware of them. Hurwitz gives his readers a large serving of Smoak s back story in this one. He might just have a family after all.
Lake Region Public Library: in the news
Celeste Ertelt, Guest Writer
DEVILS LAKE - The Lake Region Public Library will be starting up their book club with Abercrombie Trail on Feb 3 via Zoom. Please see library staff for books and details. Also a new book display entitled Books to Inspire a New You in 2021.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (Adult Fiction). Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.
Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart.
Thrillers: Boston stars in Lisa Gardner s latest
By Jon Land
“Before She Disappeared” (Dutton, 336 pages, $27) is former Rhode Island resident Lisa Gardner’s first stand-alone thriller in years, and, boy, does it stand out as a masterpiece of post-modern noir in the vein of the great Dennis Lehane.
Gardner is also at home in Lehane’s backyard of the working-class Boston neighborhoods, Mattapan in this case. The book introduces us to Frankie Elkin, a woman with more than her share of skeletons in the closet who’s dedicated to finding lost souls literally in the form of often long-missing persons. The “disappeared” in this case is a high school student who’s been missing for a year when Frankie takes up the case. Speaking of skeletons, she’s going to rattle a whole bunch in peeling back the dark layers to reveal the terrifying truth buried in this particularly insular community.
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‘Orphan X’ novelist Gregg Hurwitz talks ‘Prodigal Son,’ Shakespeare and the home life of assassins [The Orange County Register]
Jan. 19 Gregg Hurwitz was already a successful author of standalone thrillers and mysteries when he started to think about writing the kind of big, action-packed series he’d long loved as a reader.
“There’s so many characters I grew up with, and just love,” he says. “Whether it’s Jack Reacher, James Bond, Jason Bourne.”
But he couldn’t quite get his head around what would make his hero a character he thought of as Orphan X, a boy raised to be a secret government assassin different from such legends of thriller fiction, Hurwitz says.
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