Listening / Mystery, Thriller & Suspense / The Damage Man
- Written by
- Gregg Hurwitz
- Read by
- Scott Brick
- Length
- 2 hrs 2 min
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- Series
- An Orphan X Novel
- Publisher
- Macmillan Audio
- Released
- 2026-09-01
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What it is
Once the U.S. government’s deadliest off-the-books assassin, Evan Smoak was known only as Orphan X. He broke free from the Program, vanished, and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man — the last hope for those with nowhere else to turn.
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.
When Evan has a chance encounter with a desperate father named Rusty, he agrees to help find Rusty’s estranged son, who has fallen in with the wrong people — violent, unforgiving men who will stop at nothing to get their way. What looks like a straightforward rescue quickly spirals into something far more dangerous and personal.
At the same time, Evan is forced to confront the one ghost he’s never been able to escape: the birth father who abandoned him. In a world where every move could be his last, Orphan X will finally have to face the past he buried—if he can survive the deadly present.
“Narrator Scott Brick's sterling efforts add to a novel that is both a fast-paced thriller and a gripping character study.” —Kirkus Reviews on Antihero
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
On the charts
Last charted September 3, 2026. Its best position was 1 on Bestsellers in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, reached September 2, 2026. Seen on 4 charts over 4 days of readings, the first on August 28, 2026.
| Chart | Best | Days | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | |||
| Bestsellers | 1 | 4 days | September 3, 2026 |
| New releases | 1 | 2 days | September 3, 2026 |
| All audiobooks | |||
| New releases | 2 | 2 days | September 3, 2026 |
| Bestsellers | 11 | 1 day | September 2, 2026 |
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