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HOW DO YOU STOP THE MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH?

Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government programme.

He left it behind long ago but now someone has been killing off the orphans - and all evidence of the programme.

Only one person would and could do this. The man who created it.

He ''ll do anything - anything - to save himself.

But what can one man - even an Orphan - do alone?

Against the President of the United States . . .

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