‘The Night Agent’ review: An action-thriller that’s less ‘Jack Ryan,’ more ‘Three Days of the Condor’
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Mar 23, 2023
3 minutes
In “The Night Agent,” a young, square-jawed FBI agent runs afoul of his bosses and is relegated to a desk job on the overnight shift in the basement of the White House. His purpose: To monitor an emergency phone line that never rings. And then one night it does. Propulsive and smart, the 10-episode Netflix action-thriller is based on the 2019 novel by Matthew Quirk.
The series is less “Jack Ryan,” both in tone and interests, than “Three Days of the Condor,” the 1975 political thriller
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