● I REVIEWED MATTHEW QUIRK’S thriller Th e Night Agent for the Financial Times when it came out a couple of years ago and enjoyed it immensely. It’s an intelligent, fast-paced conspiracy tale based in Washington DC. Quirk, a former reporter at the Atlantic magazine, certainly knows his way around the dark side of the American military-industrial complex. Too often adaptations lose something when they are dramatised for film or television — but not this time.
The series, now showing on Netflix, is a cracking drama that engages from the first. The Night Agent is Peter Sutherland, a low-ranking FBI officer who spends his nights sitting in a basement of the White House, manning a telephone in case somebody calls. It’s a dull life until, one night, the telephone rings.…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2023