Columbia Pictures has optioned Mark Costello's new novel, "Big If," reports
Variety.
Scott Burns will write the screenplay.
Described as "MASH" in the world of the Secret Service, it's a freewheeling story about a secret agent assigned to protect the vice president, and the agent's dysfunctional New Hampshire family, which includes a brother who writes code for a sinister computer conglom called Big If.
The book is just out from W.W. Norton