Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle: The basis for the BAFTA-winning Killing Eve TV series
Jun 2017 · Hachette UK
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The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh
'Gloriously exciting' Metro
She is the perfect assassin.
A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers.
Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits.
Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to.
She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness.
Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.
Then stopping a ruthless assassin becomes more than her job. It becomes personal.
Originally published as ebook singles: Codename Villanelle, Hollowpoint, Shanghai and Odessa.
No Tomorrow and Die For Me, the following books in the Killing Eve series, are available now!
Praise for Killing Eve TV series
'A dazzling thriller . . . mightily entertaining' Guardian
'Entertaining, clever and darkly comic' New York Times
'Gloriously exciting' Metro
She is the perfect assassin.
A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers.
Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits.
Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to.
She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness.
Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.
Then stopping a ruthless assassin becomes more than her job. It becomes personal.
Originally published as ebook singles: Codename Villanelle, Hollowpoint, Shanghai and Odessa.
No Tomorrow and Die For Me, the following books in the Killing Eve series, are available now!
Praise for Killing Eve TV series
'A dazzling thriller . . . mightily entertaining' Guardian
'Entertaining, clever and darkly comic' New York Times
Ratings and reviews
4.3
92 reviews
Kim Jarvis
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March 10, 2021
Villanelle was completely different and clearly written for a male fantasy. She was this idealised perfect woman with superhuman skills. Felt insincere.
6 people found this review helpful
Tj Goldstein
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September 22, 2019
I loved this book. I really like the TV show so finding this book was a bonus. I will be reading the test of the series in the near future.
23 people found this review helpful
Sema
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November 8, 2020
This book did not live up to the hype. Villanelle feels like a character created by and for men.
11 people found this review helpful
About the author
Luke Jennings is a London-based author and journalist who has written for the Observer, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Time. He is the author of Blood Knots, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes, and Atlantic.
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