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The Villain in This New Thriller Is Nihilism
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Best-selling author Gregg Hurwitz reveals how the ‘psychopathic algorithms’ warping young men inform his latest book.
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I first met the novelist Gregg Hurwitz in 2019, when I profiled him and two of his Hollywood writer compatriots for Vanity Fair.

Today, the eleventh novel in Gregg’s Orphan X series—about former super-assassin Evan Smoak—is being published. The novel, Antihero, touches on many themes we regularly report on here at The Free Press: digital culture, the pli…

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