The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'Undeniably addictive' Metro In a hotel room in Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve Polastri has discovered that a senior MI5 officer is in the pay of the Twelve, and is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. 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. Codename Villanelle , the first of the Killing Eve series, is out now! Praise for Killing Eve TV series 'A dazzling thriller . . . mightily entertaining ' Guardian 'Entertaining, clever and darkly comic' New York Times

Forget the overrated TV series, Luke Jennings's tales of Sapphic slapstick work better on the page and this sequel to Codename Villanelle ignores the events of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's adaptation. Like his remarkable crackpot assassin, Jennings goes his own sweet way. Once again the reader is treated to a banquet of minced spies. The echoes of Ian Fleming and John le Carré are deafening and the ensuing double-crossing and switch-hitting outspoofs them both

Vorwort
Jason Bourne meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in an outrageously entertaining thriller

Autorentext

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. His Killing Eve books, of which Die For Me is the third, have been adapted for television in a series starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer.

Klappentext

The basis for BBC's "Killing Eve". Eve sets out to debrief an MI5 officer in pay of the Twelve, but with assassin Villanelle also closing in, and the two set to develop a complex dynamic.

Zusammenfassung
Jason Bourne meets The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in an outrageously entertaining thriller