MUMBAI: From the co-writer of Shaft and Armageddon comes a new complex action-thriller focusing on the secret lives and private demons of an elite US Justice department crime fighting unit that confronts the country's deadliest, most untouchable lawbreakers by going undercover to bust them.

Starting tomorrow 14 September on Star World, the new series explores the dark and mysterious world of undercover espionage in the new series UC: Undercover every Tuesday primetime slot 9 pm.

The crime fighting unit is headed by authoritative Donovan (Oded Fehr, The Mummy) and has undercover agents Jake Shaw (Jon Seda) and Alex Cross (Vera Farmiga), psychological profiler Monica Davis (Bruklin Harris, Dangerous Minds) and young techno-wizard Cody, played by Jarrad Paul, who runs all of the high-tech surveillance operations that the team conducts. The team often butts heads with Paul Bloom (Brian Markinson, "Enemy of the State"), their obstructive and fiercely ambitious, career-climbing Justice department boss.

As a federal team, the group can respond to emergencies all over the country, taking down 'elite' bank robbers, drug kingpins, domestic terrorists, spies, jewel thieves and dirty cops.

The series shows the taut, cat-and-mouse game played by the undercover agents as they attempt to infiltrate the lives of a gallery of criminals, including murderous master thief Jack 'Sonny' Walker (William Forsythe, The Rock) and imprisoned drug lord Carlos Cortez (Steven Bauer, Traffic).

The series also explores the psychological toll undercover work takes on the agents who play this deadly game of false identities and who commit treachery as a daily profession.

Watch without being seen, listen without being heard, and seduce without being seduced-that's what this team of agents and experts do as they use cutting-edge technology to surveil criminals and extraordinary courage and skill to take them off the streets.