Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

by Luke Jennings

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The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh, directed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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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...

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  • ISBN10 0316476722
  • ISBN13 9780316476720
  • Publish Date 11 September 2018 (first published 24 August 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Mulholland Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 224
  • Language English