Harlan Coben’s Got Nothing on This Underrated Political Thriller Series Based on Best

When it comes to mystery television, Netflix often draws inspiration from Harlan Coben 's work . Coben is best known for crafting thrillers that are packed with surprising twists, which lend themselves well to television. This year saw his novel Missing You come to TV, while filming has already begun on an adaptation of I Will Find You . There's another series that actually managed to match Coben's work in terms of surprises, and that's Secret City . Secret City draws inspiration from a trilogy of novels: The Marmalade Files , The Mandarin Code , and The Shadow Game by Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis. Those novels tell the story of Harriet Dunkley ( Anna Torv ), a journalist who gets swept up in a conspiracy surrounding rising tensions between the United