From the people behind The Crown and The Watch…

A TV version of Paul Sussman’s Da Vinci Code-adjacent thriller book series The Khalifa Mysteries is in the works. Left Bank, who produce The Crown for Netflix, and Simon Allen (The Watch, Strike Back) have joined forces to shepherd the new series onto the small screen, though it is a long way from making an appearance as the project is in its infancy.

Deadline reported the news, and have a good little synopsis of the novel series, which includes four different titles – The Lost Army of Cambyses, The Last Secret of the Temple, The Labyrinth of Osiris and The Hidden Oasis:

“The first book, The Lost Army of Cambyses, mixes the 523 BC disappearance of an army with Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police’s investigation into three seemingly unrelated murders. The Last Secret of the Temple explores the murder of Dutch archaeologist Piet Jansen and age-old religious treasure smuggled to the castle of Castelombres and the whereabouts of aged Nazi sympathizers, The Hidden Oasis flips between 2152 BC Egypt and 1988 USSR with the disappearance of a plane from a recently decommissioned nuclear research facility, while The Labyrinth of Osiris features a gruesome murder in Jerusalem’s Armenian Cathedral.”

Sussman previously wrote for The Big Issue and CNN before writing the four books pretty much back to back. They were published from 2002 until 2012, when he died suddenly from a ruptured aneurysm at the age of 45.