Background
Gregg Hurwitz was born in 1973, in San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.
WGAW Independent Film Executive, Kay S. Wolf, actor Roger Guenveur Smith, author Gregg Hurwitz, and SAGindie National Director Darrien Michele Gipson attend the WGA with SAG Indie Party during the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival at the Festival Lounge on June 20, 2017 in Culver City, California.
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment President of Production Carla Hacken and writer Gregg Hurwitz attend the opening night premiere of Focus Features' "The Book of Henry" during the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival at Arclight Cinemas Culver City on June 14, 2017, in Culver City, California.
2014
Gregg Hurwitz with Julie Bennett and Margi Willis.
2014
Literary Luncheon with Gregg Hurwitz.
2016
Special guest interviewer Hank Phillippi Ryan, left, and celebrity authors Francis Schultz, Gregg Hurwitz and Meg Waite Clayton were center stage at the CALM Auxiliary’s 30th annual Celebrity Authors Luncheon at The Fess Parker in Santa Barbara.
960 W Hedding St, San Jose, CA 95126, United States
Bellarmine College Preparatory where Gregg Hurwitz studied.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Harvard University where Gregg Hurwitz received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BH, United Kingdom
Trinity College where Gregg Hurwitz received a Master of Arts degree.
WGAW Independent Film Executive, Kay S. Wolf, actor Roger Guenveur Smith, author Gregg Hurwitz, and SAGindie National Director Darrien Michele Gipson attend the WGA with SAG Indie Party during the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival at the Festival Lounge on June 20, 2017 in Culver City, California.
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment President of Production Carla Hacken and writer Gregg Hurwitz attend the opening night premiere of Focus Features' "The Book of Henry" during the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival at Arclight Cinemas Culver City on June 14, 2017, in Culver City, California.
4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, United States
Gregg Hurwitz signing books at Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
Gregg Hurwitz at his book launch with Jordan Peterson.
Gregg Hurwitz writing the rough draft of Tell No Lies.
(In the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the Lambs ...)
In the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes The Tower, a novel of nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping terror played out in a psychological battle of wit, cunning, and pure evil between a diabolically clever killer and his determined hunter.
https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Gregg-Andrew-Hurwitz/dp/0684851911/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580053673&sr=1-1
1999
(In the year 2007, two scientists are accompanied by a tea...)
In the year 2007, two scientists are accompanied by a team of Navy SEALs to position critical tectonic equipment on a deserted isand in the Galapagos and find themselves immersed in a brutal war for survival that could determine the fate of the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Minutes-Burn-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/0060188863/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580053772&sr=1-1
2001
(When an unknown attacker is injured in the process of his...)
When an unknown attacker is injured in the process of his capture, ER chief David Spier is ostracized for treating the man, a situation that is further complicated when the assailant escapes, prompting Spier to delve into his own past.
https://www.amazon.com/Do-No-Harm-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/0060008865/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580053896&sr=1-1
2002
(Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. ma...)
Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job – until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter. Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches helplessly as the killer walks free on a legal technicality. Devastated, furious, and burning with a righteous need for vengeance, he is suddenly forced to explore his own deadly options – a quest that leads him into a shadowy no-man's-land between justice and the law ... and into the welcoming fold of "the Commission."
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Clause-Novel-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/0060530383/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580055270&sr=1-1
2004
(In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller ...)
In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz ratchets up the excitement with another page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a lawman motivated by honor, morality, and justice. Called back into the fold of the U.S. Marshals Service, Tim is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind-control cult. As Tim wends his way deep undercover into an insidious operation called "The Program," he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations. Tim becomes enmeshed with a diverse band of characters – from the charismatic, messianic leader T. D. Betters to a cult reject burnout to the intelligent yet highly vulnerable Leah herself – and finds himself caught in a shadowy landscape of lies, manipulation, and terror. At stake: innocent minds – maybe even his own.
https://www.amazon.com/The-Program/dp/B0006IU4UC/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Program+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580056143&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(The maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explos...)
The maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explosive new white-knuckle thriller featuring deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley – a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice. The leader of one of the country's most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been behind bars. But thanks to a daring escape on an L.A. freeway, several deputy marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. Rackley, back on the Service's warrant squad, is in hot pursuit of the outlaw and his ruthless gang – with a media whirlwind and the entire Los Angeles law-enforcement community driving him.
https://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooter-Rackley-Novels-Gregg-Hurwitz-ebook/dp/B000FCKC5Q/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Troubleshooter+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580056291&s=books&sr=1-1
2006
(Assigned to track down a dishonored recon marine who esca...)
Assigned to track down a dishonored recon marine who escaped from an island penitentiary after causing the death of a murderous fellow inmate, Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley investigates the underworld of a large pharmaceutical company and finds himself questioning the circumstances under which his target was convicted.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Shot-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/006073146X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580056367&sr=1-1
2007
(Awakening in a hospital with a scar on his head and no me...)
Awakening in a hospital with a scar on his head and no memory of being found holding a knife over his ex-fiancée's murdered body, crime novelist Drew Danner struggles to reconstruct clues to determine his own guilt or innocence. By the author of The Tower.
https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Writer-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/0670063215/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580053943&sr=1-3
2008
(Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quie...)
Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist – someone Nick has never heard of – has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he'll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Trust-No-One-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/0312534892/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580053984&sr=1-7
2010
(Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood...)
Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his house – DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their house. Then the e-mails start, and someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures it's the offer of a lifetime. But Patrick couldn't be more wrong. With every step he falls deeper into a web of intrigue that threatens everything he values in this world. Before he knows it, he's in and in deep – and his only escape is to outwit and outplay his unseen opponents at their own game.
https://www.amazon.com/Theyre-Watching-Novel-Gregg-Hurwitz-ebook/dp/B003P9WEN4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=They%27re+Watching+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580054184&s=books&sr=1-1
2011
(Bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz examines the painful and...)
Bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz examines the painful and dark past of one of Batman's most devious foes. How did young Oswald Cobblepot go from being the apple of his mother's eye to the leader of underworld gangs and adversary of The Caped Crusader?
https://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Pain-Prejudice-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/1401237320/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Penguin%3A+Pain+and+Prejudice+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580107566&s=books&sr=1-1
2011
(One morning in Los Angeles, Nate Overbay – a divorced for...)
One morning in Los Angeles, Nate Overbay – a divorced former soldier suffering from PTSD and slowly dying from ALS – goes to an eleventh-floor bank, climbs out of the bathroom window onto the ledge, and gets ready to end it all. But as he’s steeling himself, a crew of robbers bursts into the bank and begins to viciously shoot employees and customers.
https://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Novel-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/0312625510/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580054282&sr=1-1
2012
(Daniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager ...)
Daniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community-organizer wife and do the work he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he's about to start a private practice. But just before his last day on the job, Daniel finds an envelope in his department mailbox – one intended for someone else that was placed in his slot by accident. Inside it is an unsigned piece of paper, a note that says only "admit what you've done or you will bleed for it." along with a midnight deadline…which has passed. And the person to whom the envelope was addressed was found brutally murdered…
https://www.amazon.com/Tell-No-Lies-Gregg-Hurwitz-ebook/dp/B009LRWJDE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Tell+No+Lies+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580054662&s=books&sr=1-1
2013
(The Scarecrow has returned to Gotham City, but he's no lo...)
The Scarecrow has returned to Gotham City, but he's no longer the meek punching bag Batman is used to. The villainous genius has always preyed on the worst fears of his victims, but has refined his legendary fear toxin to even greater effectiveness and deadlier consequences. As the Scarecrow's origin is unfurled, Batman must find out not only how to conquer this dangerous psychopath, but how to beat his own worst fear.
https://www.amazon.com/Batman-Dark-Knight-Cycle-Violence/dp/1401242820/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Batman%3A+The+Dark+Knight+Vol.+1+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580105358&s=books&sr=1-1
2014
(Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a persona...)
Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X – until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training who will exploit Evan’s secret new identity as the Nowhere Man to eliminate him.
https://www.amazon.com/Orphan-X-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/1250067847/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580056479&sr=1-1
2016
(Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only b...)
Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate, he can – He will do anything to save them. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. Taken from a group home at twelve, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets – i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. But his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured, drugged, and spirited off to a remote location, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage but they don’t know who they’re dealing with – or that they’ve trapped themselves inside that cage with one of the deadliest and most resourceful men on earth. Continuing his electrifying series featuring Evan Smoak, Gregg Hurwitz delivers a blistering, compelling new novel in the series launched with the instant international bestseller, Orphan X.
https://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-Man-Orphan-Novel/dp/1250067855/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580056867&sr=1-1
2017
(Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was rai...)
Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as an off-the-books government assassin: Orphan X. After he broke with the Orphan Program, Evan disappeared and reinvented himself as the Nowhere Man, a man spoken about only in whispers and dedicated to helping the truly desperate. But this time, the voice on the other end is Jack Johns, the man who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known. Secret government forces are busy trying to scrub the remaining assets and traces of the Orphan Program and they have finally tracked down Jack. With little time remaining, Jack gives Evan his last assignment: find and protect his last protégé and recruit for the program. But Evan isn’t the only one after this last Orphan – the new head of the Orphan Program, Van Sciver, is mustering all the assets at his disposal to take out both Evan (Orphan X) and the target he is trying to protect.
https://www.amazon.com/Hellbent-Orphan-Novel-Gregg-Hurwitz/dp/1250119170/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580059901&sr=1-1
2018
(As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from the orphanage he call...)
As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from the orphanage he called home and inducted into a top secret Cold War programme. Trained as a lethal weapon, he and his fellow recruits were sent round the world to do the government's dirty work. But the programme was rotten to the core. And now the man responsible needs things to be nice and clean. All evidence must be destroyed. That includes Evan. To survive, Evan's going to have to take the fight to his nemesis. There's just one problem with that. Jonathan Bennett is President of the United States and Evan isn't his only victim.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Dark-Orphan-X-Novel/dp/125012042X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580060148&sr=1-2
2019
(Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as O...)
Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented – and most feared – men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate. If anyone is truly desperate, it’s Max Merriweather. Max is at the end of his rope. His cousin has been brutally murdered, leaving Max an envelope that contains nothing but a mysterious key. However, someone really wants that key, badly enough that Max – and anyone he turns to – is in deadly danger. What seems like a simple job for The Nowhere Man turns out to be anything but. Behind every threat he takes out, a deadlier one emerges and Evan Smoak must put himself in greater danger than ever before as he heads once more Into The Fire.
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Fire-Orphan-X-Novel/dp/1250120454/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1580060386&sr=1-1
2020
(Naomi Watts stars as a single mom whose 11-year-old son d...)
Naomi Watts stars as a single mom whose 11-year-old son discovers strange things happening to his friend next door and devises a plan to save her.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Henry-Naomi-Watts/dp/B073DKC1BW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Book+of+Henry+Gregg+Hurwitz&qid=1580107738&s=movies-tv&sr=1-1
2017
Gregg Hurwitz was born in 1973, in San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States.
Gregg Hurwitz started to write stories and illustrate them with crayons when he was a child. He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory and later he entered Harvard University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995. He also studied at Trinity College where he received his Master of Arts degree in Shakespearean tragedy in 1996.
Gregg Hurwitz started his career as a writer in 1999 when he published his first novel The Tower. Later he wrote such novels as Minutes to Burn, The Crime Writer, They're Watching, The Survivor and Don't Look Back. In 2004, Hurwitz started his first book series about Tim Rackley. The series comprises four books. In 2016, his new book Orphan X came out. It is the first book in a five-book series of the same name. The latest book in this series called Into the Fire was published in 2020.
Gregg Hurwitz also wrote Wolverine, The Punisher, and Foolkiller for Marvel Comics. He also wrote the original screenplay for the film The Book of Henry besides he wrote and produced season two of the TV show V. Hurwitz wrote numerous academic articles on Shakespeare. He has taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA and Harvard.
(In the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the Lambs ...)
1999(In the year 2007, two scientists are accompanied by a tea...)
2001(When an unknown attacker is injured in the process of his...)
2002(Awakening in a hospital with a scar on his head and no me...)
2008(One morning in Los Angeles, Nate Overbay – a divorced for...)
2012(In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller ...)
2005(Daniel Brasher left a high-paying job as a money manager ...)
2013(Assigned to track down a dishonored recon marine who esca...)
2007(Spoken about only in whispers, the Nowhere Man can only b...)
2017(Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quie...)
2010(Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was rai...)
2018(As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from the orphanage he call...)
2019(The maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explos...)
2006(Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a persona...)
2016(Bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz examines the painful and...)
2011(The Scarecrow has returned to Gotham City, but he's no lo...)
2014(Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. ma...)
2004(Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood...)
2011(Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as O...)
2020(Naomi Watts stars as a single mom whose 11-year-old son d...)
2017Gregg Hurwitz believes that you should write the book you would want to read yourself instead of pandering to the market. He also gets very absorbed in the books he writes preferring to do all the research himself. This has led to his undertaking risky activities such as sneaking into demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swimming with sharks and actually infiltrating mind-control cults, all as part of the research for his novels.
Quotations:
"A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways."
"Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human."
"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."
Gregg Hurwitz married Delinah Blake. The marriage produced two children.