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Eva Destruction #2
The Amnesiac's Guide to Espionage
Eva Destruction is Back! Eva is an MI6 agent who wakes to find armed men in her apartment hell-bent on revenge. The only problem is, she has no idea what they're talking about. Someone has stolen the last sixth months’ worth of her memories and the fate of the world rides on getting them back. On the eve of the G8 summit, Eva is thrown headlong into globe-trotting assassinations and gun battles on the trail of the mysterious plan known only as Halcyon. Together with a besotted CIA agent and a misogynistic MI6 operative, Eva races across the world to retrace her steps in the hopes of finding answers. With the clock ticking, Eva must track down those behind her memory loss, as well as battle a foe she can't remember. The globetrotting takes her from London, to exotic Macau casinos, to Hong Kong hydrofoils, to French castles, to English mansions, to a car chase between an ice-cream van containing a nuclear weapon and black SUVs through the streets of London. With betrayal at every turn, Eva discovers she can't trust anyone, including her own organisation. Eva must face down nuclear annihilation alone and she hasn't even had her coffee yet.Although the Eva Destruction novels can be read in any order, The Amnesiac’s Guide to Espionage takes place after The Rookie’s Guide to Espionage and before The Dead Spy’s Guide to Espionage.
- GenresThriller
290 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2017
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About the author
Dave Sinclair
17 books53 followersDave Sinclair is a USA Today bestselling author, screenwriter and a really excellent parallel parker. Author of the Atticus Wolfe, Charles Bishop, Eva Destruction novels and snarky Post-It notes.
The three series have different main characters, but do manage to slip into each other’s series now and then.
Dave spends a lot of time in his imaginary world and ignoring the washing.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two crazy daughters.
He’s also an award winning filmmaker. A title that sounds much more impressive than it really is. He won a best comedy screenplay and cinematography award for one of the short films he wrote and directed, though at the time he didn’t really know what cinematography was. A completed screenplay is currently doing the rounds.
Dave’s overflowing bookshelves include many works by Douglas Adams, P.G. Wodehouse, Dashiel Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Janet Evanovich, Ian Flemming, Zadie Smith and John le Carré.
To find out more, you can stalk him at all these semi-reputable places:
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The three series have different main characters, but do manage to slip into each other’s series now and then.
Dave spends a lot of time in his imaginary world and ignoring the washing.
He lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two crazy daughters.
He’s also an award winning filmmaker. A title that sounds much more impressive than it really is. He won a best comedy screenplay and cinematography award for one of the short films he wrote and directed, though at the time he didn’t really know what cinematography was. A completed screenplay is currently doing the rounds.
Dave’s overflowing bookshelves include many works by Douglas Adams, P.G. Wodehouse, Dashiel Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Janet Evanovich, Ian Flemming, Zadie Smith and John le Carré.
To find out more, you can stalk him at all these semi-reputable places:
https://facebook.com/DaveSinclairAuthor/
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/dave-...
https://www.instagram.com/davesinclai...
https://books2read.com/DaveSinclair/
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February 25, 2019
I certainly hope that anybody coming to this series isn't expecting serious. I mean "Eva Destruction"... You should, however, be expecting all the thrills, spills, banter and high energy action that you'd get with any top notch thriller series of novels.
In this second full-sized outing (there's a 1.5 novella out as well - THE ROOKIE'S GUIDE TO ESPIONAGE) Eva Destruction, barista extraordinare, coffee shop owner and MI6 agent is up to her elbows in blokes ("on her side", "definitely not on her side", and "it's complicated"), gun battles and assassinations, all without the aid of any memory of the last six months. You see Eva woke up with an apartment full of men (the "not on her side" variety), and no memory of her recent past. Which makes it very hard to decide if the good guy is the besotted CIA agent or the misogynistic smart mouthed MI6 one ("on her side" and "it's complicated" - you work it out). It's much easier for everybody to work out who the bad guys are though - they are the ones armed to the teeth and very intent on tracking down a small nuclear bomb that they seem to think Eva has tucked away somewhere safe, even though she has no idea where, why or what the....
Which leads to, as per the blurb, exotic Macau casinos and a millionaire playboy; a French castle (her own, for the full story you'll have to read the first novel THE BARISTA'S GUIDE TO ESPIONAGE) and an English country mansion; culminating in a car chase between a tricked up, nuclear bomb toting ice-cream van and a lot of black SUVs through England and into the streets of London.
Did I mention not to expect serious?
These books are littered with wisecracks, smart arsery to laugh out loud at, and some really good action scenes in which everyone - CIA, MI6 and Eva - get to do some daring doing and a bit of smack and tackle. There's even a short, sharp Molotov cocktail armed French castle siege which really only needed more insults being shouted to raise more suspicions that we've got a bit of a Monty Python fan behind all this.
This is a fun series, close enough to silly, but never too far into farce. Read them starting anywhere if you have to, but the start will give you a very good idea of how the castle came about, and how a loud-mouthed Aussie barista (a good one) ends up as an MI6 agent "tasked" to save the world.
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In this second full-sized outing (there's a 1.5 novella out as well - THE ROOKIE'S GUIDE TO ESPIONAGE) Eva Destruction, barista extraordinare, coffee shop owner and MI6 agent is up to her elbows in blokes ("on her side", "definitely not on her side", and "it's complicated"), gun battles and assassinations, all without the aid of any memory of the last six months. You see Eva woke up with an apartment full of men (the "not on her side" variety), and no memory of her recent past. Which makes it very hard to decide if the good guy is the besotted CIA agent or the misogynistic smart mouthed MI6 one ("on her side" and "it's complicated" - you work it out). It's much easier for everybody to work out who the bad guys are though - they are the ones armed to the teeth and very intent on tracking down a small nuclear bomb that they seem to think Eva has tucked away somewhere safe, even though she has no idea where, why or what the....
Which leads to, as per the blurb, exotic Macau casinos and a millionaire playboy; a French castle (her own, for the full story you'll have to read the first novel THE BARISTA'S GUIDE TO ESPIONAGE) and an English country mansion; culminating in a car chase between a tricked up, nuclear bomb toting ice-cream van and a lot of black SUVs through England and into the streets of London.
Did I mention not to expect serious?
These books are littered with wisecracks, smart arsery to laugh out loud at, and some really good action scenes in which everyone - CIA, MI6 and Eva - get to do some daring doing and a bit of smack and tackle. There's even a short, sharp Molotov cocktail armed French castle siege which really only needed more insults being shouted to raise more suspicions that we've got a bit of a Monty Python fan behind all this.
This is a fun series, close enough to silly, but never too far into farce. Read them starting anywhere if you have to, but the start will give you a very good idea of how the castle came about, and how a loud-mouthed Aussie barista (a good one) ends up as an MI6 agent "tasked" to save the world.
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January 7, 2018
I was lucky enough to receive a review copy of this book. I'm a fan of Sinclair's mixture of action, thrills and romance, topped off with that dash of humour. I enjoyed the first book in this series and thought this one was even better. I'm looking forward to the third book to see what's in store for Eva next! #TeamBishop
April 19, 2022
Oh Eva!
Wasn't a fan at first! But I've come around. Despite her silliness and her making everything about feminism, you can't help but like Eva Destruction. The stories have gotten more interesting since the first one-A Barista's Guide to Espionage. I have a fondness for Bishop also. I like his character! On to the next!
Wasn't a fan at first! But I've come around. Despite her silliness and her making everything about feminism, you can't help but like Eva Destruction. The stories have gotten more interesting since the first one-A Barista's Guide to Espionage. I have a fondness for Bishop also. I like his character! On to the next!
March 18, 2021
Excellent read
I love this series!!! Eva's profanity laced rants keep me laughing. When she included spider - - - - in one my wife and I had to clean up the remnants of a sip of beer I blew out of my mouth and nose...I can hear died on that one but my goodness that was funny.
I love this series!!! Eva's profanity laced rants keep me laughing. When she included spider - - - - in one my wife and I had to clean up the remnants of a sip of beer I blew out of my mouth and nose...I can hear died on that one but my goodness that was funny.
November 15, 2018
What a great follow up to the first book! Eva does not disappoint, and neither does Dave Sinclair. Can not wait for the next book in the series - keep 'em coming!
March 29, 2021
Pretty good lots of action and cheesy humor.
March 27, 2023
This is a fantastic, fast-paced adventure. Eva is smart, smart mouthed, and irreverent. She is a powerful female protagonist who willingly jumps into impossible situations and succeeds.
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March 31, 2023
So good! Lots of twists, turns and laughs! Highly recommend!
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