About this book
The Night Agent, published in 2019 at 432 pages, is Matthew Quirk's best-known book by far following its 2023 Netflix adaptation. It follows Peter Sutherland, a low-level FBI agent manning a secret phone line in the White House basement that hasn't rung in years -- until it does, pulling him into a mole hunt reaching the top of the administration.
Key facts about The Night Agent
The Night Agent is a book by Matthew Quirk. Readers have had it since 15 January 2019. It runs to 432 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Night Agent. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062875464 to find the main one.
Matthew Quirk has 9 books in our catalogue. 4 of them belong to a series, while 5 stand alone. All 9 are out now. Other books by Matthew Quirk on file include Inside Threat (2023), Red Warning (2022), Cold Barrel Zero (2016) and The Directive (2015).
Before this one, Dead Man Switch came out in 2017. After it came Hour of the Assassin in 2020. Since then, our list has added 4 more books by Matthew Quirk.
Matthew Quirk has 2 series on file, such as Mike Ford and John Hayes. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Method is the latest published Matthew Quirk book on file, from 20 January 2026.
About Matthew Quirk
Matthew Quirk is an American thriller writer who studied history and literature at Harvard College before spending five years as a staff writer for The Atlantic, reporting on crime, private military contractors, the opium trade, terrorism prosecutions and international gangs -- reporting that gave him the institutional and security-world detail he has drawn on across his fiction since. See every Matthew Quirk book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062875464
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062887382