It is said that when he is reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. Now, however, someone is on his tail with similar skills and training. Someone who knows Orphan X and its covert operation. And will exploit Evan's weakness-- his work as The Nowhere Man-- to find him...

"Former assassin Evan Smoak using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons....

"Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission -- The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with...