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DETROIT — Good news for ex-Detroit FBI agent Paul Lindsay.
Millenium Films has acquired the rights to “The Bricklayer”, his best-selling novel penned under the pseudonym Noah Boyd, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The publication reports that Scottish actor Gerard Butler will star in the film as a rogue former agent who’s services are needed to battle a criminal group that’s been demanding multi-million dollar ransom payments.
The Hollywood reporter said Hanna Weg (Enigma) is adapting the novel for the screen. Butler, Alan Siegel and Danielle Robinson are producing, with Erik Lindsay and Weg serving as executive producers.
Lindsay’s book was published by William Morrow in January of last year.
Lindsay published his first book in 1992 while he was still working as an agent in downtown Detroit. In all, he’s cranked out seven books.
His books are really, really wonderful, by the way, so he deserves credit on both fronts.