Villanelle: Shanghai (published 3 February 2015 49 pages).Villanelle's pattern of assassinations draws the attention of a highly intelligent MI5 agent, Eve Polastri, who pursues Villanelle relentlessly. Villanelle: Hollowpoint (published 3 August 2014 56 pages).Star linguistics student Oxana Vorontsova's multiple brutal murders attract the notice of a secret global power elite, which recruits her as an assassin with codename Villanelle and rewards her with a luxurious lifestyle. Codename Villanelle (published 4 February 2014 36 pages).without you, without predators-people who can think the unthinkable and act without fear or hesitation-the world stands still. "Men or women who are born, as you were, without a conscience or the ability to feel guilt. Jennings described Riaño-nicknamed La Tigresa (The Tigress) for her "legendary sexual prowess"-as a "psychopath" and "completely without empathy." Novella series Ĭodename Villanelle is a compilation of four serial Kindle edition novellas: Jennings stated that he based Villanelle's character on Idoia López Riaño, a hitwoman for Basque nationalist paramilitary group ETA who was convicted of murdering 23 people in the 1990s. Codename Villanelle has been summarized as pitting "heartless female assassin" Villanelle against "dowdy but dogged MI5 agent" Eve Polastri, the two women "battling it out at a distance" as Polastri seeks clues at a series of killing sites. Villanelle is a Russian orphan who, after murdering the killers of her gangster father, is rescued from prison and trained as a hitwoman by a shadowy group called The Twelve. Codename Villanelle is the basis of the BBC America television series Killing Eve (2018–2022). A compilation of four serial e-book novellas published from 2014 to 2016, the novel was published in the United Kingdom by John Murray as an e-book on 29 June 2017, followed by hardcover and paperback versions on 24 August 2017.
Codename Villanelle is a 2017 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings.
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