YMMV / The Night Agent

• Adaption Displacement: The series is more well known than the book it was based off.
• Complete Monster: Gordon Wick is the slimy, wicked CEO of the defense contractor company Turn Lake Industries. Wick is responsible for a rash of assassinations throughout the Baltics to increase the reach of his company and later allies with US Vice President Ashley Redfield. Wick plots with Redfield to orchestrate the bombing of the Metro train in an attempt to kill thousands so Redfield can kill suspected terrorist Omar Zadar and hide the assassination as a terrorist attack. Unlike Redfield, who at least believes Zadar may be a threat, Wick is only interested in the money. When the Metro bombing's worst effects are foiled, Wick orders the murder and torture of anyone investigating the attack. Wick later convinces Redfield to launch an attack on the hundreds in Camp David to kill the US President and allow Redfield to take over and pardon them for all their crimes.
• Moral Event Horizon: The assassins cross it definitively when they use an actual baby as part of their disguise as a married couple, then leave said baby strapped in a child carrier in the house of the woman they murder, not caring that the baby might die as well. Then there's the fact they kidnapped someone's child in the first place.
• The Woobie: Maddie Redfield is probably the worst suffering character. When she was five, her three-year-old sister died and her father blamed her for it, even though he wasn't supervising them at the time. She gets beaten by her father when confronting him about it, and saves it to bring him down. In the series proper, she is groomed by her art professor, kidnapped by the Metro Bomber, and her father is arrested for his role in the conspiracy, leaving her with no parents since her mother has already died of cancer. This girl deserves a hug.

---