Kevin Howell wrote in Shelf Awareness that No Tomorrow is a 'faster, funnier and more exciting', and less episodic, than Codename Villanelle, adding that the sequel 'brilliantly walks the line between thriller and spoof' though 'some of the tongue-in-cheek James Bond action goes past overkill'. The dark rapture flowing into every vestige of her being, filling and possessing her utterly. All leading up to the kill, that moment of absolute power. There's a sense of things falling into place, as if impelled by gravity.

Īs always, now that she is in play, Villanelle is serene. When Villanelle learns that Eve is her next target, Villanelle begins to suspect that The Twelve will soon turn on her, too-unless the two women can work together to foil their plot.

Villanelle helps the MI5 officer turn the tables on Eve, and the two women continue their duel and sustain their mutual obsession. Villanelle learns that Eve has discovered The Twelve is paying a senior MI5 officer, whom Eve interrogates to try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together. In her global travels in pursuit of Villanelle, Eve Polastri experiences 'luxuries most.don't even know enough to dream about'. Killing Eve: No Tomorrow was originally announced in May 2018 under the title Villanelle: No Tomorrow. Villanelle becomes the quarry of British intelligence agent Eve Polastri. Villanelle is a Russian orphan who, after murdering the killers of her gangster father, was rescued from prison by The Twelve and trained as a hitwoman and compensated with a luxurious life in the West. The preceding novel, Codename Villanelle, is a compilation of four serial e-book novellas published from 2014 to 2016. The novels are the basis of the BBC America television series Killing Eve (2018–2022). It was published in the United Kingdom by John Murray on 25 October 2018. Killing Eve: No Tomorrow is a 2018 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings and the second installment in the Killing Eve series, following Codename Villanelle (2017).

Villanelle book series