The Night Agent
A Novel
Published on 21. February 2019
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-06-287546-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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, The Method!
Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by Matthew Quirk:
Red Warning
Hour of the Assassin
Dead Man Switch
Cold Barrel Zero
The Directive
The 500
Inside Threat
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, The Method!
Look for these other pulse-pounding thrillers by Matthew Quirk:
Red Warning
Hour of the Assassin
Dead Man Switch
Cold Barrel Zero
The Directive
The 500
Inside Threat
Reviews / Votes
"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"The Night Agent is a compelling high-stakes thriller, lightning fast, relentlessly suspenseful and unsettlingly realistic." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of Trust Me
Praise for the earlier novels: "A thundering David-and-Goliath tale of corruption... A real page turner, with high stakes action that doesn't stop." - Booklist (starred review) on The 500
"The Firm goes to Washington, only with a whole lot more action." - James Patterson on The 500
"Sophisticated storytelling [and] whiplash pacing . . . Clever twists and startling surprises." - Washington Post on Cold Barrel Zero
"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
"Lots of good, tense plotting... A real pleasure of espionage fiction is tradecraft secrets, and Quirk doesn't disappoint." - Booklist
"Quirk returns to the thriller scene with a thundering bang... Quirk's latest feels like he's been churning out political thrillers for decades, hitting on a timely plot that starts out fast and only speeds up as the story unfolds... [A] high-stakes, nail-biting political thriller." - TheRealBookSpy.com
"Baldacci's debut [Absolute Power] kept me awake half the night. I'm still a fan... I had the same reaction when I picked up The Night Agent... Best to start this at the beginning of a weekend, as you'll be burning the midnight oil 'til you're finished." - Newark Star Ledger
"This is David Baldacci territory, but done with a refreshing vigour by... Quirk who is making a name for himself as a thriller writer to watch." - Daily Mail (London)
"A plot that twists like a cobra in a sack, a whip-crack pace and engaging characters make The Night Agent a very classy thriller." - Financial Times
"A whirlwind of action and suspense." - The New York Times
"Matthew Quirk is rapidly proving himself to be among our finest thriller writers, and The Night Agent is the latest undeniable evidence. Quirk writes rapid-fire, page-turning action with unusual grace and intelligence, and his latest American nightmare is guaranteed to keep readers up late." - Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of How It Happened
"The Night Agent is 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
"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)
"This story is impossible to put out of mind.... Relevant and revealing, this is one of the best thrillers to come along in years." - Michael Connelly
"The story is expertly stripped down, the action relentless, and the characters multilayered. A lethal game of cat and mouse." - Kirkus Reviews on Cold Barrel Zero
"A tour de force. Dead Man Switch turns the intelligence community's 'wilderness of mirrors' into a high-speed racetrack, delivering twist after twist toward a literally explosive conclusion... Quirk shows us the human cost of living-and dying-on the gray edges of national security." - Joseph Finder
"This is a nonstop, heart-pounding ride in which moral blacks and whites turn gray in "the efficient alignment of power and interests" that is big-time politics. Quirk has another high-powered hit on his hands." - Booklist (starred review) on The Directive
"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
"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
"Plenty of breathless one-more-chapter, stay-up-late suspense wrapped around a meaty and timely story ... irresistible." - Lee Child
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-287546-4 (9780062875464)
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Matthew Quirk is the New York Times bestselling author of Inside Threat, Red Warning, Hour of the Assassin, The Night Agent, Dead Man Switch, Cold Barrel Zero, The Directive, and The 500. He spent five years at The Atlantic reporting on crime, private military contractors, terrorism prosecutions, and international gangs. He lives in San Diego, California.