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Codename Villanelle

Killing Eve, Book 1

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Codename Villanelle

By: Luke Jennings
Narrated by: Laura Kirman
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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 costs her everything.

Then stopping a ruthless assassin becomes more than her job. It becomes personal.

©2016 Luke Jennings (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Espionage Mystery Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Russia Exciting Scary Crime Assassin
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This started off well but soon lost its way. The end came before I even thought it had reached a conclusion. I guess it's making us all yearn for book 2!
A few dreadful pronunciation errors really should have been edited out.

Disappointing

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After watching the tv series I had a certain amount of trepidation listening to this book as I thought parts of the tv series were downright silly. Fortunately this book doesn’t suffer from the same issues and I enjoyed it enough to get the second book in the series.

Better than the tv series

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Hooked in the first 15mins
already bought the second books I hope it's just as good

Incredible

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Dull, the reader is boring to listen to. If I'd read the book first I wouldn't have watch it on TV. Disappointing !

Dull

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This is great writing - plot and character. Differs sufficiently from TV series to make it a new and worthwhile experience. Reader is really excellent, my Audible best ever. But so short ! It is a premium book in content and production. But minute per buck makes it premium price too. Also i was disappointed to see in the next volumes someone else takes over as reader. So, I don't think I will continue with the series. Which is a shame, because as this book says at its end, it is really only the start of things.

Fabulously Thin ? 6 hours 48 - bit short measure

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