Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
Release Date: September 1, 2025
Publisher: Alan Dermott via Amazon.com
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
Forced to work for the US government, Eva is tasked with rescuing Lithuanian-American hacker Andrius Poska from Russian hands. At stake, the future of the world. Poska’s creation, Juggernaut, threatens to destroy civilization as we know it. The goal is a darker, new beginning. The concentration of world power into the hands of a few. Only Eva Driscoll can prevent the end of times.
End of Times, by author Alan Dermott, is the 7th installment in the author's Eva Driscoll series. This story picks up approximately 11 weeks after the events of Ocean of Wrath. At its core, End of Times thrusts protagonist Eva Driscoll—McDermott's tough-as-nails ex-CIA operative turned rogue asset—back into the fray under duress. Forced into a black-ops mission for the U.S. government, Eva must infiltrate Russian territory to extract Lithuanian-American hacker Andrius Poska, whose groundbreaking AI creation, dubbed "Juggernaut," holds the potential to upend global power structures.
This isn't your garden-variety cyber-thriller; Juggernaut isn't just a tool—it's a harbinger of chaos, engineered for a "darker, new beginning" that funnels world control into the clutches of an elite few. As Eva races against clockwork conspiracies involving corrupt officials, shadowy oligarchs, and high-tech mayhem, culminating in a doomsday scenario that feels eerily prescient in our AI-dominated era. McDermott weaves in familiar faces from prior books, such as the enigmatic Tom Gray, ensuring series loyalists feel rewarded while keeping the plot accessible to newcomers.
The only player not truly involved in this story is Simon "Sonny" Barnes who was shot in the chest during the events of the previous book, and is unable to do much except babysit Tom's daughter while he, Eva, Farooq, Travis Burke, Rees Culback, and Xi Ling attempt to save the world from megalomaniacs in the US and Russia. If you've followed Eva's arc—from her fugitive days in Run and Hide to dismantling empires in Empires Will Fall—this feels like a natural evolution, ramping up the personal toll on our heroine while expanding the canvas to existential threats.
Eva remains one of the most compelling female leads in modern thrillers: resourceful, flawed, and unapologetically lethal. She has become someone to call on when the President needs something done efficiently. Juggernaut is portrayed not as a cartoonish villain AI but as a chilling extension of human greed, echoing real-world debates around tech monopolies and surveillance states.
It's clever writing that elevates the genre, making you ponder the "end of times" long after the final page. Once again, my one real complaint is the number of supporting characters involved in the story. From the ruthless FSB chief to the megalomaniac billionaire to the brilliant Marine who must make a choice, these individuals will likely affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the US.
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