The Night Agent

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The Night Agent is a compelling high-stakes thriller, lightning fast, relentlessly suspenseful and unsettlingly realistic.”— Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of Trust Me Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with The Night Agent, a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you’re wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further. Joseph Finder Matthew Quirk moves into David Baldacci and John Grisham territory with The Night Agent, a paranoid, pulse-pounding thriller that could not be more prescient. If you’re wondering where the best of the next generation of suspense talent is headed, look no further.” — Joseph Finder The action dazzles. The characters feel authentic and fully fleshed. The threats seem all too real. Los Angeles Review of Books on Cold Barrel Zero

Side note about the tv series: I don't know what they were smoking when they wrote the screenplay but they seriously added stuff they didn't need to add. There is this crazy woman in the show that is partners with the lead assassin who suffers from some sort of impotence but she pushes him for sex. It is a very weird dynamic and I have no idea WHY they wrote that in the show. It's not in the book, it added NOTHING to the series except my desire for this woman to die or just disappear. I really hated her character and am VERY VERY happy it's not in the book. a b Andreeva, Nellie (March 29, 2023). " 'The Night Agent' Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 3, 2023 . Retrieved March 29, 2023. At 1:05 A.M. the phone rings. A terrified young woman named Rose tells Peter that two people have just been murdered and that the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: “Tell them OSPREY was right. It’s happening...”This book follows Peter Sutherland, who answers a distress call from Rose Larkin, whose aunt and uncle have just been murdered. It all boils down to this: there's some kind of conspiracy in the White House, and Peter and Rose's lives are at risk until they can get to the bottom of it. Lots of good, tense plotting… A real pleasure of espionage fiction is tradecraft secrets, and Quirk doesn’t disappoint. Booklist What an exceptional story that has down to earth,believable characters that you feel right next to as they struggle to find exactly Who is against them and Who is with them!! A definite 5 STAR story that grabs you at the start and never lets you go.... Peter's father had been an agent, and was labelled as a traitor, a fact never confirmed before he died in a suspicious accident. So Peter has always followed every rule tightly, never giving anyone a chance to shun him even as so many knew his Dad. Sophisticated storytelling [and] whiplash pacing . . . Clever twists and startling surprises. Washington Post on Cold Barrel Zero

a b Hailu, Selome (November 22, 2021). "Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan To Lead 'The Night Agent' Series at Netflix". Variety. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023 . Retrieved December 26, 2021.

What does the author, Matthew Quirk, think about his novel making it to TV? 

Then there were the practical things: “We looked into subways and how near they can get to gas lines, and explosions that could cause bigger explosions. I’m surprised an FBI agent hasn’t questioned our writer’s assistant on that. We want to tell stories that are thrilling, that are logical. [Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and director] David Mamet, who I worked with for a while on a different TV show, always used to talk about stories being surprising, but inevitable. We tried to find surprising, but inevitable things. We did a lot of research to always try to make sure that what we were talking about felt grounded and real.” The Night Agent is a compelling high-stakes thriller, lightning fast, relentlessly suspenseful and unsettlingly realistic. Hank Phillippi Ryan The Night Agentis a whirlwind of a book, a captivating narrative that takes us inside the White House’s inner sanctum and the shadowy machinations surrounding it. A powerful and taut thriller.” Mark Greaney #1 bestselling author of-Mission Critical I thought the wrap-up was a little clunky and left some loose ends, but still all in all this was good entertainment. It’s a timely novel too, with a plot line based on Russian plans to get aggressive with its neighbors and to compromise any international forces that might interfere. You will see some definite connections to the current political situation, but Quirk cleverly writes in such a way as to make the story palatable to readers who may have very different political outlooks.

Andreeva, Nellie (February 1, 2022). " 'The Night Agent': Hong Chau, DB Woodside, Sarah Desjardins & Enrique Murciano Among 7 Cast In Netflix Series". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022 . Retrieved February 1, 2022. To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. . . and trust no one. Where Was the 'The Night Agent' Filmed? You Might Be Surprised". Netflix Tudum . Retrieved April 27, 2023. Quirk’s chilling and modern scenario of foreign influence reaching into the highest reaches of government will be thoroughly enjoyed by political thriller junkies.”— Library Journal(starred review)

Saying you work at the White House sounds sexy unless you’re FBI agent Peter Sutherland, whose entire job description requires spending eight hours a night in the Situation Room sitting at a desk that houses a single phone that never rings. The Night Agent is an American action thriller television series created by Shawn Ryan based on the novel of the same name by Matthew Quirk. Starring Gabriel Basso in the title role, it premiered on Netflix on March 23, 2023. [1] The series emerged as the third-most-viewed debuting series on Netflix in its first four days, and within a week it was renewed for a second season. [2] Within a month, it became the streamer's sixth-most-viewed series. The Directive does for the Fed what… Aaron Sorkin did for the White House in “The West Wing”, and what Beau Willimon is doing with “House of Cards”… Drips with the kind of eye for the telling detail that only a canny reporter, detective or spy possesses. Forbes For Peter, though, the job symbolizes something much bigger than babysitting a silent hotline. The son of a disgraced FBI chief, Peter has had to work twice as hard to earn trust within the agency. Once a solid D1 basketball player, Sutherland left the NCAA behind to join the FBI in an effort to right the wrongs committed by his father. Instead, he was reassigned to a third-shift assignment in the basement, where he’s unable to do any good until one night, out of the blue, the phone finally rings.