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Maverick former CIA man Joe Turner is back in an explosive new series of Condor –and this time he’s in even deeper trouble...

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Joe Turner, a former CIA analyst, has already been forced to step out from behind his computer to help foil two terrorist plots in hit series Condor. So what could possess him to put his life on the line once more in the service of his country?

Could it have something to do with a devastating event involving his uncle, Head of America’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Bob Partridge? It would have to be something seismic to tempt anyone into the hell he faced after his colleagues were massacred in 2018’s gripping first series.

‘That was about Joe fighting for his life and avoiding an assassin’s bullet after he discovered the truth behind a proposed terrorist attack on a packed American football stadium. He then helped foil an attempt to kill thousands at a pilgrimage in the Middle East,’ says co-creator Todd Katzberg. ‘Now, it’s about him fighting for his soul – and trying to do the right thing.’

Joe (Max Irons) is a free agent after quitting his job with the CIA and lying low in Budapest, Hungary, when we meet him again in the new ten-part second series.

‘He’s haunted by the events of series one,’ explains Max, son of Oscar-winning actor Jeremy. ‘He rings up his friend Mae Barber in America in the early hours of the morning for a chat, having suffered terrible nightmares.’

The deadly world of espionage quickly threatens to embrace Joe once more in this fast-paced drama, based on the 1974 James Grady novel Six Days Of The Condor and the 1975 movie Three Days Of The Condor, which starred Robert Redford.

Spy Vasili Sirin approaches Joe, claiming there’s a Russian mole at the CIA headquarters in Virginia. He urges Joe to call his uncle Bob so that the authorities are made aware of the danger.

Sirin says CIA assets are already dead due to information passed by the mole to the Russians. In the opening scene, we see an agent dying in a hail of bullets on a beach on the Black Sea when an operation authorised by CIA officer Gordon Piper went wrong.

But events conspire and Joe

doesn’t end up getting the chance to call Bob (played by William Hurt). He then heads back to the States. ‘Mae Barber offers him a room,’ explains co-creator Jason Smilovic. ‘He feels he has no choice but to once more embrace the CIA – the only way he can possibly change the system is by re-entering it.’

Joe has Sirin in tow, and he

quickly renews his acquaintance with Reuel Abbott, a rogue CIA figure who was behind the attempted terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia in the first series.

‘Joe despises Abbott and vowed to take revenge on him,’ says Jason. ‘Now could be his chance.’