Dark Horse: The pulse-racing Sunday Times bestseller

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Hurwitz also includes innovative ways the baddies are smuggling drugs or making money via synthetic drugs as well as introducing electronic spyware and intricate hacking tools and the like. Aragón sat at the most prominent table with his aunt, who’d been both mother and father to him since poverty had killed his parents shortly after his birth in a Hidalgo County regional hospital— Mamá from an undiagnosed bladder infection, Papá from a knife in the kidney when he’d tried to stop a fight behind a Whataburger in Corpus Christi. The light of Aragon's eyes, his beautiful, beloved 18 year old daughter, Anjelina, was abducted at her birthday party. It's an interesting concept and one where morality bumps quite heavily up against what good can be done through bad acts.

That’s tested even more with the mission as siding with Aragón doesn’t feel right either so he’s grappling with having to let go of some of the hard lines he’s constructed for himself. The young men held their ground respectfully, waiting in hope for her to choose her partner for the waltz. Raul is a psychotic, surrounding himself with an arsenal of weapons, men, and violence that few can surpass. I thought this worked as a stand-alone book because we were given plenty of references to Evan's background as Orphan X and The Nowhere Man, along with his many other aliases.X is part of a now defunct government run op who is a lethal weapon and literally see things unfold steps ahead of everyone else. I understand the need for lifting the plausibility veil in an "Orphan X" type of book, I really do, but it seemed like Gregg Hurwitz was definitely stretching in "Dark Horse".

They were cheaply cushioned beneath cracked teal vinyl, connected armrest to armrest, suited to a hospital or a DMV. They touch on issues Evan is struggling with, letting others get close enough emotionally to become a part of his family. Aragón had refrigerator-size blocks of shrink-wrapped cash stacked in various structures around his compound, so many that he had to pay teams of men to rotate them so they wouldn’t rot or wind up chewed to a pulp by rats. It's like watching a game of soccer, and at some point the referee blows his whistle and everyone starts unpacking their tennis rackets. I am far more interested in Evan's character development, and here he is emotionally pushed to his limits when it comes to his fears regarding Joey's desire to go on a road trip with Dog, and Mia's predicament requiring more of him with regard to Peter.He went by “Kiki,” which, on top of his partnership with Eduardo, had saddled him with the inevitable sobriquet “Special K.