īeauty Story (1998) is a novel about a young actress who vanishes from a 16th-century English castle where she was filming a fragrance commercial. Jennings' novel, Atlantic (1995), which takes place in a cruise ship in the post-war years, was nominated for the Booker Prize. Jennings' first novel, Breach Candy (1993), follows a recently retired ballerina and an intelligent-but-wounded television director researching a Channel 4 documentary in Mumbai. He was dance critic for The Observer and also wrote dance-related articles for Time. Īs a journalist, Jennings has written for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and has reported from locations around the world, including Moscow. Jennings trained as a dancer at the Rambert School, was one of the students of the Expressionist and Integrated dance pedagoge Hilde Holger, studied Indian languages, and produced and directed a Channel 4 documentary filmed in Bombay. (Mar.Luke Jennings (born 1953 ) is a British author, dance critic and journalist. Agent: Jason Bartholomew, BKS Agency (U.K.). Still, many fans of the TV series will want to check this one out. Anyone familiar with standard genre tropes, such as the spy’s significant other who demands a choice between work and family, will find them in droves. Eve gets on the trail of a shadowy Russian cabal, but the focus, again, is on her love-hate relationship with her rival.

Cradle, with the help of Villanelle, turns the tables on Eve, setting off a predictable cat-and-mouse game. Eve finds a place with MI6, and tricks the traitorous Cradle into a meeting, where she offers him a deal in exchange for information about those who persuaded him to work for Russian interests. Eve once worked for MI5, where she identified a pattern to assassinations committed by a woman who had targeted “prominent figures in politics and organized crime.” Her efforts to prevent another murder were blocked by a superior, Dennis Cradle, and led to her dismissal. Jennings’s pallid second thriller featuring British intelligence agent Eve Polastri and her arch-nemesis, Villanelle (after 2018’s Codename Villanelle), lacks the appeal of the BBC America TV series Killing Eve based on the earlier book.

No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings