Listening / The Code
- Written by
- Gregg Hurwitz
- Read by
- Scott Brick
- Length
- 1 hr 40 min
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- Listed
- $8.24
- Series
- An Orphan X Novel
- Publisher
- Macmillan Audio
- Released
- 2025-09-02
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What it is
In the latest short story from bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz, discover the teenage missions of Orphan X.
Before he was the feared black ops government assassin Orphan X, operating in the shadows and spoken about in whispers, Evan Smoak was a teenager, undergoing the most rigorous of training. At 17, Evan is sent off by his handler, ex-CIA station agent Jack Johns, to take the most intense U.S. military training course. But that is only part of the challenge before him - Evan has to get there and back, safely and quietly, maintaining operational security. And along the way, facing unexpected challenges, Evan must use everything he's learned since the day he was taken from the foster home in East Baltimore, lessons that Jack Johns has drilled into him, laws of life and death that are to become The Code.
This program is read by AudioFile Golden Voice narrator Scott Brick, winner of the 2024 ITW Thriller award for his narration of the Orphan X book The Last Orphan, and the 2025 Audie Award for his narration of the Orphan X book Lone Wolf.
"Brick devotes attention to every voice.… His accents and inflections boost the listening experience.” —AudioFile on Nemesis
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
About the series
An Orphan X Novel in order →An Orphan X Novel — 31 books, showing the 24 around this one
- 3 Hellbent: An Orphan X Novel (Evan Smoak, Book 3)4.8
- 3.5 The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story3.3
- 3.5 The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story: Evan Smoak4.5
- 4 Out of the Dark: An Orphan X Novel (Evan Smoak, Book 4)4.8
- 4 Out of the Dark: The gripping Sunday Times bestselling thriller4.8
- 5 Into the Fire: An Orphan X Novel (Evan Smoak, Book 5)4.8
- 5 Into the Fire4.8
- 5.5 The List: An Orphan X Short Story4.7
- 5.5 The List4.9
- 6 Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel4.7
- 6 Prodigal Son: The explosive and thrilling Sunday Times bestseller4.3
- 7 Dark Horse: An Orphan X Novel4.7
- 7 Dark Horse: The pulse-racing Sunday Times bestseller4.5
- 8 The Last Orphan: The Thrilling Orphan X Sunday Times Bestseller4.7
- 8 The Last Orphan: An Orphan X Novel4.6
- 8.5 The Recital: A Joey Morales (and Orphan X and Tommy Stojack and Candy McClure and Aragón Urrea) Short Story4.8
- 9 Lone Wolf: An Orphan X Novel4.7
- 9 Lone Wolf4.7
- 10 Nemesis: 'Makes the Jack Reacher books look quaint' - The Sun4.5
- 10 Nemesis: An Orphan X Novel4.5
- 11 Antihero: An Orphan X Novel4.5
- 11 Antihero: The nail-biting new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Orphan X4.8
- · The Damage Man: An Orphan X Short Story4.7
- · The Code: An Orphan X Short Story4.7
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