I haven't kept her safe. Someone's taken her. It goes without saying that when I find out who that is I'll kill them. Ex-MI6 officer Eve Polastri and assassin Oxana Vorontsova are living off grid in Russia. Their existence is pinched and drab; both know how close they came to mutual destruction. Oxana is approached by the Twelve. Frustrated by inaction hungry for her old life she allows herself to be brought in from the cold. Then she finds Eve gone taken from her by those who think she still belongs to them. And so Villanelle wakes and a new game begins. Villanelle plays her part with lethal skill indulging the monster that has for too long been caged. As the hunt for Eve takes her from St Petersburg to Paris and a final reckoning in London old and new enemies surface. Soon both women are drawn back into the shadowlands of political intrigue and murder.
