He’s an FBI agent, so he has some training, but he’s not Jason Bourne. “Peter doesn’t exist in the novel as some kind of unbeatable killing machine superhero.

In an interview with Cinema Express, show creator Shawn Ryan said of Basso's character: For such a heavyweight show creator to be so inspired that he wrote a pilot after finishing the final chapter tells us we could have an extremely compelling story and series in The Night Agent. The adaptation will come to life thanks to an avid reader, Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield. The series is based on a 2019 novel of the same name by author Matthew Quirk.

“Based on the novel by Matthew Quirk, the series is a sophisticated, character-based, action-thriller centering on a low level FBI Agent who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings - until the night that it does, propelling him into a fast moving and dangerous conspiracy that ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office.” The official description of The Night Agent is below. Related: Most Realistic Spy Movies of All Time The green fed is now charged with protecting this civilian from a deadly conspiracy that, of course, goes all the way to the top.

The dust is kicked off the phone one night when it actually rings, and a terrified woman is on the other end of the line. The stakes are high, but the action is low. He acts as the emergency contact for spies who run into insurmountable trouble in the field. The Night Agent revolves around a cub FBI agent who mans a dusty phone beneath the halls of power.

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