Villanelle - La série

Dans un palais au bord d'un lac italien, douze hommes scellent le destin d'un homme, le condamnant à mourir. À Paris, une femme reçoit l'ordre de tuer. Aussi insaisissable que mortellement efficace, Villanelle se met en route. DECOUVREZ L'HISTOIRE QUI A INSPIRE LA SERIE TV EPONYME AVEC SANDRA OH (Grey's Anatomy)

Alors qu’il rejoint son domicile à vélo dans le nord de Londres, l’agent du MI5 Dennis Cradle se fait kidnapper. Dans son bureau à Thames House, Eve Polastri exulte. Elle tient enfin une piste, l’existence d’une taupe au sein des services secrets. Allongée sur le lit d’une chambre d’hôtel de Venise, Villanelle reçoit un appel : un informateur des Douze est compromis. Alors que l’affrontement entre les deux femmes s’intensifie, leur obsession l’une pour l’autre ne cesse de croître. Elles se cherchent, se rapprochent. Leur rencontre est désormais inévitable.

From bestselling author Luke Jennings, the third novella in the Villanelle thriller series. Beneath a bruise-dark monsoon sky, Villanelle paces the streets of Shanghai. Her task, to eliminate the leader of an elite team of Chinese hackers, who are stealing vital data from the West. Beautiful and sexually predatory, a psychopath who has been trained to kill without hesitation, Villanelle is the ultimate assassin. But hard on her heels is the brilliant and fiercely determined Eve Polastri of MI6, who has sworn to hunt Villanelle down, whatever the personal cost. The stage is set for erotic intrigue and bloody violence, played out against the glittering backdrop of Asia's most decadent city. "What I enjoy about Villanelle is that she is robotic and ruthless and kills to order, but you don’t in any way dislike her. Her effortless cool and glamour and cleverness ensure that. Villanelle is a professional killing machine and she does her job, never stopping to query the ethics or the rights and wrongs of her work. Actually, neither did I, very much. A gripping story. Well written. Fast paced. Two great female characters. What’s not to love?" Christine's Book Reviews (on Villanelle: Hollowpoint) "Fast and furious… We can't wait for the next one. And by the way, someone get a copy of this story to Jennifer Lawrence. If she’s looking for her next franchise after “The Hunger Games,” this may be it." Howard Polskin – Thin Reads (on Codename Villanelle). LUKE JENNINGS is the author of Blood Knots, short-listed for the Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes, and of several novels, including the Booker Prize-nominated Atlantic. As a journalist he has written for The Observer, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Time.

The fourth novella in the Villanelle series. A fast, sexy, journey-length read. Villanelle is a psychopath and a trained assassin, as beautiful as she is lethal. As night falls on the Ukrainian city of Odessa, Villanelle prepares to break into the fortified mansion where Konstantin, her mentor, is held hostage. In London, meanwhile, Eve Polastri of MI6 is rewarded with a breakthrough as she and her team pursue Villanelle and the shadowy network for whom she kills. In a deadly battle of wits, Villanelle is pitted against the brilliant and ferociously determined Eve. This is a thriller series with a difference. The writing is blade-sharp, and the sex as fierce as the action. "What I enjoy about Villanelle is that she is robotic and ruthless and kills to order, but you don’t in any way dislike her. Her effortless cool and glamour and cleverness ensure that. Villanelle is a professional killing machine and she does her job, never stopping to query the ethics or the rights and wrongs of her work. Actually, neither did I, very much. A gripping story. Well written. Fast paced. Two great female characters. What’s not to love?" Christine's Book Reviews (on Villanelle: Hollowpoint) ""Fast and furious… We can't wait for the next one. And by the way, someone get a copy of this story to Jennifer Lawrence. If she’s looking for her next franchise after “The Hunger Games,” this may be it." Howard Polskin – Thin Reads (on Codename Villanelle). LUKE JENNINGS is the author of Blood Knots, short-listed for the Samuel Johnson and William Hill prizes, and of several novels, including the Booker Prize-nominated Atlantic. As a journalist he has written for The Observer, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and Time.