Apple TV+ has landed the rights to “High Wire,” the thriller novel from international bestselling author Candice Fox, for development as a TV series, reports Deadline.
Ridley Scott’s Scott Free is set to produce under their first-look deal with Apple TV+. Here’s how the book “High Wire” is described: Taking readers on a high-octane journey through the Australian outback, the story centers on Harvey Buck, a former soldier racing against time to reach his dying girlfriend. Along the way, he encounters Clare Holland, a traveler stranded after her car breaks down. Offering her a ride, Harvey unwittingly plunges them both into a nightmare. They are ambushed by a vengeful crew and forced into bomb vests, compelled to commit a series of increasingly dangerous missions under threat of detonation.
Fox is an Australian novelist, best known for her crime fiction.She has collaborated with James Patterson on several novels. Fox has written or co-written 18 novels.
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