It would lead to bright streams and wild country, but would end with his mentor’s capture, torture, and execution by the IRA. So began an enlightening but often dark-shadowed journey of discovery. But then a series of teachers presented themselves, including an inspirational young intelligence officer, from whom he learned stealth, deception, and the art of dry-fly fishing.

His progress was slow, and for years, he caught nothing. With library books as his guide, he applied himself to the task of learning to fish. Beneath their surfaces waited alien and mysterious worlds. As a child in the 1960s, he was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his home. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers. Codename Villanelle is a sleek, fast-paced international thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction.īlood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler’s life. The ensuing chase will lead them on a trail around the world, intersecting with corrupt governments and powerful criminal organizations, all leading towards a final confrontation from which neither will emerge unscathed. Eve, whose quiet and otherwise unextraordinary life belies her quick wit and keen intellect, accepts the mission. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.Įve Polastri (not a codename) is a former MI6 operative hired by the national security services for a singular task: to find and capture or kill the assassin responsible, and those who have aided her. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful.

Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins.

Killing eve no tomorrow