Mr. Robot can be a fun show, but it also takes place in a universe that is slightly more bleak and apocalyptic than our own, so star Rami Malek and creator Sam Esmail are teaming up for another project that’ll give them a little break from Mr. Robot’s hacker conspiracies. According to Deadline, Esmail is set to direct and produce an adaptation of Tamer Elnoury and Kevin Maurer’s memoir American Radical: Inside The World Of An Undercover Muslim FBI Agent, which—as indicated by the wordy title—is about a Muslim man who joined an FBI counter-terrorism group after September 11 and worked undercover to try and bring down a terrorist cell. Rather than an action-packed thriller, it sounds like the story will involve more quiet tension, with Elnoury (the agent) working to prove that the group he’s with actually planning some kind of attack.