Overview
- Two episodes launch on Thursday, August 28, on Sky Atlantic and NOW, with weekly installments to follow.
- The five-part drama tracks two men swept into a cartel’s plan to move uranium across North Africa and the Middle East.
- Alfie Allen plays drug smuggler Max opposite Shazad Latif as drifter JJ.
- Showrunner Gregory Burke adapted themes from Langewiesche’s 2007 non-fiction book Atomic Bazaar.
- The storyline is dramatized rather than a literal true account, drawing on reported concerns about post-Soviet nuclear trafficking, including routes cited in Turkey and Russian closed cities.