CBS Acquires Project based on novel Red on Red by Edward Conlon

CBS has acquired a project based on Edward Conlon's debut novel Red on Red. Former Without a Trace and The Defenders showrunner Greg Walker is expected to develop it for the network.

Published earlier this year by Spiegel & Grau, Red on Red is the story of two NYPD detectives, Meehan and Esposito: one damaged and introspective, the other ambitious and unscrupulous. Meehan is compelled by haunting and elusive stories that defy easy resolution, while Esposito is drawn to cases of rough and ordinary combat. A fierce and unlikely friendship develops between them and plays out against a tangle of mysteries: a lonely immigrant who hangs herself in Inwood Hill Park, a serial rapist preying on upper Manhattan, a troubled Catholic schoolgirl who appears in the wrong place with uncanny regularity, and a savage gang war that erupts over a case of mistaken identity.

(Source: Deadline|Hollywood.)