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Codename Villanelle is a 2018 novel by British author Luke Jennings. It is a compilation of four e-book novellas published between 2014 and 2016.

Novella Series

  • Code Name Villanelle (February 4, 2014)
  • Villanelle: Hollowpoint (August 3, 2014)
  • Villanelle: Shanghai (February 3, 2015)
  • Odessa (June 14. 2016)A 3

Plot

Codename Villanelle:

Spoilers!

In Italy, 12 unidentified men discuss gang Lord Salvatore Greco. It is revealed he has killed 2 Judges, 4 Senior officers and a pregnant journalist. He is also revealed to have killed a operative of the twelve. The speaker proposes to assasinate Greco. The men unanimously vote in favour.

2 weeks later, in Paris, a young woman called Villanelle is approached by a couple in an elite private members club. She informs them she is an investor. Villanelle receives a single coded message, 'DEFLECT' from a man named Konstatin. She leaves and her name is revealed, Oxana Vorontsova and that 3 years ago she was in remand for murder.

3 years ago, a man lays out Oxana's charges which are revealed to be for the murder of 3 gangsters. The man states she is lucky that the police found her first or she would be otherwise dead. It is revealed her Ukranian mother died when she was 7 and that her dad was often drunk and left her in orphanages up until his death. In one of the orphanges she wan diagnosed with Sociopathic Personality disorder. After she was released from the pyschiatric unit she formed an attachment to a teacher and castrated a student after he sexually assaulted the teacher. Konstantin then reveals she will be released, if she works for him.

In Paris, Villanelle decides an email containing the details of her next target, Salvatore Greco.

On the Essex coast, Oxana trains in fitness and unarmed combat by a man named Frank. The conditions are extremely cold. In response to Frank's punishments, she nearly drowns him. Oxana then trains in evasion in Germany. She then went through an Interrogation course in the US, weapons familiarisation in Kiev, Sniper school in Russia, Explosives and toxicology in Volgograd, Survaillance in Berlin, driving and lock picking in London and advanced communications and decoding in Paris

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Television

Main article: Killing Eve

The BBC America series adaptation began airing the first season on April 8, 2018.

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