Emmerich’s character is named Whitover, an FBI agent whose career is diminishing.
Tina Elmo, Robert Redfort, and George R.R. Martin serve as the executive producers while Graham Roland is the creator and executive producer of the project. Vince Gerardis is an executive producer and the showrunner. Chris Eyre will direct the pilot as well as serve as an executive producer. Six episodes has already been ordered. Season one will premiere on AMC+ and AMC in 2022.
Here is the goodreads blurb of book one of the series titled “The Blessing Way”:
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.
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