When Death Strikes
Alan McDermott
319 pages
Kindle edition
Published 2021
☠️☠️☠️☠️
When Death Strikes is the fourth instalment of the Eva Driscoll series about an ex-CIA assassin on the run from a shadowy cabal of powerful billionaires. I read the first three several years ago, then like so many of my thriller series, got behind and kinda forgot about it, but then saw the next three were available on Kindle Unlimited. I don’t think you need to have read the previous books to enjoy this – but they’re fast-paced action-packed adventures so if you like that sort of thing, why wouldn’t you?
Eva and Sonny escaped the tentacles of the ESO and are travelling quietly through South America minding their own business, when a local gangster decides to pick her up in a bar – and when she’s not interested, knocks Sonny out and kidnaps her. This sets off a chain of events which alerts the ESO command to their presence, and the chase is on. Meanwhile their friend Tom Gray is hiding out in Canada with his daughter, but he too upsets the wrong person and once more becomes a target.
If you like kick-arse morally grey heroines – and I so do – Eva Driscoll is up there with the best of them. I’ve forgotten most of what happened in the earlier books – and haven’t read any of the Tom Gray series, but it didn’t matter, the plot stands alone. The villains are despicably evil, but all get what they deserve – unfortunately with a fair amount of collateral damage… I enjoyed the South American setting, and the banter between the leads – as well as the strength of their relationship. There’s a bit too much reliance on coincidence in the plot, and plenty that’s pretty implausible, but if you can overlook this, it’s a gripping read and I’m not going to wait another six years to read the next one!
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