I read Matthew Quirk’s THE NIGHT AGENT when it came out a few years ago and liked it quite a lot. Of the Quirk books that I’ve read, it is the best. So I was excited to see that it had been made into a Netflix film. It stars two very likeable actors — Gabriel Basso and New Zealander Luciane Buchanan.

The story: The Night Agent centers on a low-level FBI agent, Peter Sutherland , who works in the basement of the White House, manning a phone that never rings — until the night it does, propelling him into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office.

Rose Larkin is a young tech CEO who’s fallen on hard times and retreats to her aunt and uncle’s house to take stock of her life. When assassins come for her aunt and uncle, she quickly learns they weren’t who they seemed to be and finds herself with Peter, both of them running for their lives. Rose proves as capable as Peter — even in the physical stuff. She saves Peter’s bacon more than once.

The Night Agent has ten 1-hour episodes, which my wife and I binge-watched over last weekend. We found it very entertaining and exciting. We haven’t binge-watched anything for a long time. It was a fun experience. There’s a lot of mediocre content on the streaming channels so it is nice to once in a while find something as well done as The Night Agent.