The Bite (1996)

Directed by

Michael Carson

Genre

action & adventure, drama

Country

Australia

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rating

9.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Australian adventurer and his new wife move to Burma to start a jewelry business dealing in rubies. They discover their biggest customer is actually a drug trafficker, so they begin spying on her for the Australian Federal Police.

suspensefultensegrittydangeroussomberdarkatmosphericserious

What happens

The Bite is a 1996 miniseries about an Australian adventurer who moves to Asia with his new wife. Ellie and Jack Shannon start a jewellery business in Burma, which is renowned for its rubies but is also one of the corners of the infamous heroin ‘Golden Triangle’. Things turn sinister when one of their biggest customers, Samira Nazib, reveals that drug-trafficking is the true nature of their business. The Shannons spy on her and her partner for the Australian Federal Police. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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