Roadside Attractions Snaps Up Rights to The Eighth Sister

Roadside Attractions Television has acquired Robert Dugoni’s best-selling and critically acclaimed spy thriller The Eighth Sister, the first in a planned series.

The Eighth Sister, set in present-day U.S. and Russia, centers on long-retired African American CIA case officer Charles Jenkins. Brought back in by his former bureau chief to run a top-secret mission in Moscow, he ultimately finds himself running for his life and possibly betrayed by his own country. Roadside Attractions, a Lionsgate sister company, has optioned the rights to the novel and is developing the title as a series.

Jennifer Berman, Roadside Attractions senior VP, said, “Robert Dugoni’s amazing book The Eighth Sister explores the real-world tensions and spy tradecraft of today’s international politics in a thrilling way, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring it to audiences. Our push into television is allowing us to reach more deeply and broadly into stories and ideas that we find exciting and important, and this is a perfect example of acquiring a bestseller that could not be more timely or topical and tailor-made for a series format.”