Codename Title: Spy Fiction with Protagonist Title.

The mysterious Russians didn't care when Salvatore Greco was killing other mafioso to get his way (committing genocide against entire families), but do take issue when he gets trigger happy and starts killing important Italian and Sicilian legal figures. They have a somewhat lockjaw deal with the Latin American cocaine companies.

The Cartel: The main one initially named is the Greci family, who stole the Italian mafia drug business back to Sicily from the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria.

Asshole Victim: It's implied that just before she turned seventeen, Villanelle vivi-castrated the man who raped the woman she'd fallen in love with.

Since childhood she has been enormously gifted and highly intelligent, attending one of the best universities in Russia to study French and Linguistics, and also won the gold medal for pistol shooting in the Russian University Games when she was only a freshman.

Academic Athlete: Strangely enough, Villanelle.Codename Villanelle (2017): Compilation of four novellas:įor another pan-European seductress called Villanelle, see The Passion.

Formerly of MI6 special ops she's now been hired by NSS with this singular purpose, Villanelle wanted dead or alive. Eve Polastri is a sharp-witted spy who is going to catch her. She is pulled out of holding prison by a crime organisation who see potential in her and give her freedom in return for her compliance and loyalty, training her as an assassin to add to their books like a human gun.

Oxana Borisovna Vorontsova, codename 'Villanelle', is a psychopathic Russian criminal as dangerous as she is beautiful. 'His words confirmed what she had always known, even at her lowest ebb: that she was different, that she was special, that she was born to soar.'Ī 2015 British novel by Luke Jennings, and the basis for the 2018 TV show Killing Eve.

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