Catherine Raynes: Nemesis and The Crash

Nemesis by Greg Hurwitz  

Evan Smoak is a lone wolf operator. It goes with the territory for a former off-the-books government assassin. He certainly can't afford to go up against one of the few people he likes and trusts in this world. But Tommy Stojack, a gifted armorer and gunsmith whom Evan relies on, has crossed a line. And when Evan confronts him, instead of clearing up a deadly disagreement, he comes under attack. Now it's war. Tommy's got problems of his own though. He promised a dying comrade that he'd be there for the man's son and now the boy's in a world of trouble. The very last thing Tommy needs is Evan showing up with vengeance on his mind. The scary thing? Evan isn't even the most dangerous threat to arrive on the scene . . . 

 

The Crash by Frieda McFadden  

The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed. Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn't realize she's heading straight into a blizzard. She never arrives at her destination. Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she's made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs- she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears. But something isn't right.  

Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn't what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet. And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself-and her unborn child. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Catherine Rain's our book reviewer, has her picks for us
this weekend, including the latest by Greg Hurwitz. Orphan X
is Back tell us about Nemesis, Catherine.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
So this is actually book ten in the series, and
Evans Smoke is the main protagonist, and he's known for
the rest of the world as Orphan X and they
nowhere when and he's he's broken out of our government
black ops programmers, where his background is, and he has
this certain set of rules and values that he lives by.
In the top of that list for him is loyalty,

(00:43):
and that sort of strong code of right and wrong
helps him. He believes remains sort of human as opposed
to being a heartless killing machine. But his best friend
Tommy seems to have broken this code, and he provided
weapons to an assassin who targets some innocent victims, and
that's a line Evan that does not cross, and so
they end up confronting each other and they sort of
retreat back, realizing that the next time they ever meet,

(01:05):
they're going to be enemies. And at the meantime, Evan's
trying to negotiate his home life and his relationship with Joey,
and Joey's trying to figure out who she is as
a young girl who was raised to be a killer,
but she's now instead going to college and trying to
struggling to fit in and social media and all that
sort of stuff. And then also Tommy, the other guy,
has his own problems. He has an old army barbie

(01:28):
Miami buddy who died in his arms, and he said
that he'd help his son if he ever called, and
that son calls him the favor, and he ends up
in this rural town and this corrupt cops and hate
and anger and tension, and he's trying to keep his promise.
And then Evan often X ends up there as well,
and that's where the plot and the tension kind of

(01:49):
raps up and becomes fast and furious, and you keep
them turning the pages to see where these characters end
up next. So yeah, kind of typical Greek. Herwitz really
keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, very good. Okay, that's Nemesis by Greg Heowitz. You've
also read The Crash by FRIEDA. McFadden.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
So in the story eight months ago, Teagan had gone
out with some friends and she meets this handsome stranger,
and then a few weeks later, she discovers she's pregnant
and she contacts him and she learns of two things
from there that actually, this guy, Simon is an incredibly
wealthy marriage man who really wants nothing to do with her,
and the other thing is that he's willing to pay

(02:27):
this enormous sum of money to keep her quiet in
exchange for her signing a non disclosure agreement. But when
they meet for signing the agreement, she kind of some
memories of that night end up triggering for her, and
she decides to just refuse the money, and she's going
to head to her brother's house, which is a couple
of hours away, but she ends up in a blizzard
and a snowstorm and ends up crashing in the middle

(02:49):
of rural Maine and no sale service, and she's broken
her ankle and there's no way to reach her brother,
and this man Hank, stops and rescues her and takes
her back to his house along with his wife, Polly,
and she goes because she's kind of out of options,
but she's kind of not really sure where she is,
and she suspects that things really quite right, and that's
kind of where the plot starts. And there's lots of

(03:12):
twists and turns, and it's impossible to figure out who
can be trusted and who has ulterior motives, and a
big reminder that people are not always what they've seem
in The book's a little bit dark and a little
bit twisted, and a little bit of a layer of
creepiness in there as well, but certainly a great plot
with lots of twists and tunes.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Very good. Okay, that's by Freda McFadden. That one's called
The Crash, And Catherine's first book is the latest orphanex
the tenth one by Greg Hurwitz. It's called Nemesis, Nemesis
and The Crash. Both of those will be on our
website

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