Early last month we reported that TNT had ordered a pilot for King and Maxwell, a series based on characters created by crime novelist David Baldacci.
Today we're learning that both leads have now been cast. Rebecca Romijn (the "X-Men films) will play Michelle Maxell opposite Jon Tenney, who was previously announced to play Sean King (The Closer, Major Crimes).
In the series, both play former Secret Service agents, who are now private investigators specializing in handling sensitive cases in the Washington DC area.
The characters were introduced in the 2003 thriller Split Second. To date, there are six books in the series.
Shane Brennan (NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles) has written the pilot screenplay and will co-executive produce. Baldacci will serve as a consultant.
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Split Second
David Baldacci
A Sean King and Michelle Maxwell Mystery (1st in series)
It was only a split second — but that's all it took for Secret Service agent Sean King's attention to wander and his "protectee", third-party presidential candidate Clyde Ritter, to die. King retired from the Service in disgrace, and now, eight years later, balances careers as a lawyer and a part-time deputy sheriff in a small Virginia town.
Then he hears the news: Once again, a third-party candidate has been taken out of the presidential race — abducted right under the nose of Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell.
King and Maxwell form an uneasy alliance, and their search for answers becomes a bid for redemption as they delve into the government's Witness Protection Program and the mysterious past of Clyde Ritter's dead assassin. But the truth is never quite what it seems, and these two agents have learned that even one moment looking in the wrong direction can be deadly.
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