Overview

• Sky releases the five-part drama with a two-episode launch, with remaining episodes rolling out weekly.
• Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif lead as reluctant partners forced into transporting highly enriched uranium across North Africa and the Middle East.
• Sky positions the show as inspired by real reporting yet fully dramatized rather than a literal retelling of specific events.
• Creator Gregory Burke cites Atomic Bazaar as the starting point, saying the production built fictional characters and scenarios around the book’s reporting.
• Samira Wiley features as an undercover CIA officer as CIA, MI6 and other forces close in on the protagonists.