Once she’s taken care of business, she’s back to taking matters into her own hands. On the flip side, we follow Vilannelle to Austria where she is tasked with a very high level assassination that she plans in a typically dark way. Why is she there? Who has organised this? Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster fathers killers.

With Eve Polastri heading off to Moscow hot on the heels of Villanelle, we are immediately thrown into the action where Eve is arrested and thrown into a Russian prison – not a salubrious start for any heroine, especially not one that’s on the trail of a Russian assassin. Gloriously exciting Metro She is the perfect assassin. So following the way of these things, the second installment of the series ‘No Tomorrow’ was destined to be either a disappointing damp squib or a roaring success. Luke Jennings is the person who created the captivating, but equally terrifying, Villanelle. hire will eliminate her prey in even more evil ways in his sequel, No Tomorrow. The duel between the two women intensifies, as does their mutual obsession, and when the action moves from the high passes of the Tyrol to the heart of Russia, Eve finally begins to unwrap the enigma of her adversary’s true identity.Ĭodename Villanelle was such a success that it has recently appeared as the major TV hit ‘Killing Eve’, albeit much changed and with a heavier focus on the female leads and their odd cat and mouse relationship. Luke Jennings, author of the Villanelle books on which Killing Eve is based. Codename Villanelle (2017) No Tomorrow (2018) Die For Me (2020). As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. Luke Jennings is a British journalist and author of mystery and thriller novels. In a hotel room in Venice, where she’s just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call.Įve Polastri has discovered that a senior MI5 officer is in the pay of the Twelve, and is about to debrief him.

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