MICHAEL DOUGLAS’ SEVEN YEAR SENTINEL ITCH

It was almost seven years ago when Michael Douglas first read the page turning novel The Sentinel by Gerald Petievich which told the thrilling story of a mole inside the Secret Service. It has taken that long for the actor to produce the gripping best seller and bring it to the screen. Douglas talks about what attracted him to his role in The Sentinel.

The Sentinel also stars Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria as a rookie agent partnered with 24 star Keifer Sutherland who are hired to investigate an attempted assassination on the president.

“The thing that attracted me the most was the aspect of the secret service agent, my character Pete Garrison who was one of the agents involved with the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt and had been wounded. He’d been serving for all the rest of that time now as the secret service agent assigned to the First Lady. What made this novel so contemporary was there was a mole in the Secret Service, the first time in 142 years.”