A 10-episode series based on Matthew Quirk's 2019 novel The Night Agent was released on Netflix yesterday. It stars Gabriel Basso as FBI agent Peter Sutherland, whose job is to monitor an emergency espionage hotline in the White House basement that never rings. A call finally comes from a frantic civilian named Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), who tangles Sutherland in a conspiracy involving a Russian mole in the White House. Created by Shawn Ryan (S.W.A.T., The Shield), The Night Agent also stars Hong Chau, Sarah Desjardins, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Eve Harlow, Enrique Murciano, Phoenix Raei and D.B. Woodside.
Deadline noted that when Ryan "announced that he was adapting the show in late 2020, he was discussing some of the favorite books he'd read that lockdown year. He listed The Night Agent in the category of 'Books I Read, Decided to Adapt for Television and May Have Already Finished Writing the Pilot Episode.' Netflix ordered The Night Agent to series seven months later."
Matthew Quirk, former reporter at the Atlantic, is the author of numerous espionage thrillers, including The 500 (2012), Cold Barrel Zero (2016), Hour of the Assassin (2020) and Red Warning (2022). His upcoming book, Inside Threat, will be published by Morrow on June 13. The Night Agent is also available from Morrow.
