Exclusive: Never Back Down screenwriter Chris Hauty’s debut novel Deep State has been sold to Simon & Schuster’s Emily Bestler Books and is being shopped for film and TV rights by literary agency Original Artists.
The agency describes the book as a contemporary Three Days of the Condor-style thriller with a strong female lead as it focuses on a young woman who leaves the Army to become a White House intern. Haunted by her own demons, she becomes aware of an assassination plot against a very polarizing president.
Hauty’s book – the writer’s first novel – was sold by Ann Rittenberg at Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency to Emily Bestler Books in what is said to be a mid-six figure deal that includes a sequel titled Counter Measure.
“I wanted to explore the unlikeliest of heroes,” Hauty tells Deadline. “A true fish out of water in Washington, D.
The agency describes the book as a contemporary Three Days of the Condor-style thriller with a strong female lead as it focuses on a young woman who leaves the Army to become a White House intern. Haunted by her own demons, she becomes aware of an assassination plot against a very polarizing president.
Hauty’s book – the writer’s first novel – was sold by Ann Rittenberg at Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency to Emily Bestler Books in what is said to be a mid-six figure deal that includes a sequel titled Counter Measure.
“I wanted to explore the unlikeliest of heroes,” Hauty tells Deadline. “A true fish out of water in Washington, D.
- 10/5/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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