The Night Agent
A Novel
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4.1 • 54 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The Inspiration for the Smash Hit Series! Watch Season 2 of The Night Agent on Netflix!
To find a Russian mole in the White House, an FBI agent must question everything. WHEN ANYONE CAN BE A TRAITOR THERE’S NO ONE TO TRUST.
FBI Agent Peter Sutherland waits in the White House Situation Room. He monitors an emergency line for calls that might never come. Then the phone rings.
A terrified young woman says two people have been murdered and 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.'
The call thrusts Peter into the heart of a conspiracy years in the making, involving a Russian mole at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Anyone in the White House could be the traitor. Anyone could be corrupted. To save the nation, Peter must take the rules into his own hands, question everything, and trust no one.
REVIEWS ARE RAVING ABOUT THE NIGHT AGENT. FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN MISSING:
"This is one of the best thrillers to come along in years.” — Michael Connelly
"A whirlwind of action and suspense--The New York Times
“Plenty of breathless one-more-chapter, stay-up-late suspense wrapped around a meaty and timely story ... irresistible.” — Lee Child
“Strap in for one hell of a ride. The Night Agent is full of twists and surprises you’ll never see coming.” — Ben Coes, New York Times bestselling author of Bloody Sunday
“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
If you liked The Night Agent, you'll love Matthew Quirk's twisty new thriller, Inside Threat!
Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by Matthew Quirk:
Red WarningHour of the AssassinDead Man SwitchCold Barrel ZeroThe DirectiveThe 500
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The fate of American democracy hangs in the balance as a low-level FBI agent wrestles between doing what he’s told and doing what’s right in this white-knuckle spy thriller. Peter Sutherland has a boring job at the White House, sitting by a phone that rarely rings. That is, until one fateful evening, when a call from a frightened woman named Rose Larkin draws him into a festering Russian conspiracy that implicates the uppermost echelons of government. With breakneck pacing and a cloak-and-dagger Cold War vibe, Matthew Quirk’s tightly wound story had a grip on us from that first telephone ring. Haunted by the accusations of treason that brought down his own father, Sutherland is bursting with just the kind of dogged determination you want in a spy hero. It’s no surprise this pageturner was adapted into a TV series, but trust us, the book is even better.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Idealistic FBI agent Peter Sutherland, the hero of this uneven political thriller from bestseller Quirk (The 500), works the night shift in the White House situation room, standing by for an emergency call "that might never come." Finally, he gets one from Rose Larkin, whose uncle and aunt, American counterintelligence agents Henry and Paulette Campbell, have instructed her to make a "night action" call and flee their house in a residential Washington, D.C., neighborhood. The Campbells possess a red ledger containing evidence of meetings between a high-placed U.S. government official and Russian intelligence officers, and a Russian operative is prepared to kill for it. Initially an innocent pawn in a game of high-stakes intrigue, Rose soon becomes a target, and Peter has found himself a mission. He's a sympathetic figure with something to prove (his FBI counterintelligence agent father was accused of being a traitor), and Quirk keeps the action moving at a cinematic clip. But Peter is too earnest by half, and those expecting nuance will be disappointed. Still, readers looking for a highly contemporary take on relations between the U.S. and Russia will be rewarded.
