![]() ![]() ![]() The wide-open ending points to more to come in the struggle between these two resourceful antagonists. ![]() Eve slowly begins putting together the pieces of the Villanelle puzzle. A 2015 British novel by Luke Jennings, and the basis for the 2018 TV show Killing Eve. After carrying out several assigned killings, she guns down Russian political theorist Viktor Kedrin in London, which brings her to the attention of former British MI5 agent Eve Polastri, who was in charge of protecting Kedrin. After a year of intensive training, Oxana now goes by the code name Villanelle. Three years earlier, Konstantin rescued Oxana from the Dobryanka women’s remand center in the Ural Mountains, where she was serving time for murdering three gangsters. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the worlds richest and most powerful. Assassin Oxana Vorontsova, who was once a linguistics student at the University of Perm, is employed by someone she knows only as Konstantin, who works for a secret international organization called the Twelve, a dozen men who decide which evildoers who threaten the stability of the world should die. Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the worlds most skilled assassins. Superior prose and a cracker jack plot lift this exceptional spy thriller and series launch from Jennings ( Beauty Story). ![]()
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