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ATF: Alcohol - Tobacco - Firearms

Threat advisory: Under evaluation

Movie propaganda

Inspired by actual events: it is one of America's most controversial law enforcement agencies, but when terrorists attack they are our only hope.

From international best-selling author Patricia Cornwell, ATF is an explosive thriller that takes us inside one of the world's most controversial law enforcement agencies and into the hidden halls of politics, power and greed in Washington DC, USA.

As the FBI and ATF count the rising cost of the incident at Waco and investigations continue into what went wrong, for some the toll is more personal.

ATF Agent Robyn O'Brien (Amy Brenneman) lost her brother in the tragedy, but is about to find herself in the line of fire again when a new threat arises.

Reluctantly her embattled boss, ATF director Maggie Hale (Kathy Baker), has agreed to send Robyn undercover, to break a gun manufacturing organisation before another act of terrorism can take more lives and send the country into chaos.

Security censorship classification

M (Low level violence)

Not for public release in Australia before date

20 October 1999