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Synopsis

"These are first-class spy novels with a smart, gritty atmosphere." - CHARLES CUMMING, New York Times & Sunday Times Best-selling Author of KENNEDY 35 and BOX 88

Prepare yourself for Michael Frost Beckner's boldest experiment in espionage as Kaleidoscope expands the Spy Game universe with a multi-part saga of three generations of Kingstons—a CIA family trapped in the web of the Agency's darkest secret.

"Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner… Dialogue so sharp it’s like dancing on hot coals." - I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award-winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW

Since the 20th century, energy has been the key to every nation’s power. The root of every conflict. Today, global demand outstrips resources. As directed by Silas Kingston, KALEIDOSCOPE is the hidden hand within the CIA manipulating fuel dominance—its possession, production, distribution. Older than the Agency itself, KALEIDOSCOPE overscores all intelligence operations with deadly efficiency.

BOOK ONE: 4TH OF JULY

"Nobody vanishes," Silas Kingston insists, but one Kingston has...

A vanishing or an escape? Conspiracy, or treason? When clandestine officer Michael Kingston goes missing in Turkey, the secrets and lies of three generations of a CIA family—spies, spouses, lovers, children-collide with the most fiercely protected operation within the CIA.

BOOK TWO: BIRTHDAY

A celebration of bonding-deceptions, family lies, generational sin. Of covert death. Suicide and murder. Paige's 18th birthday promises everything it is to become a Kingston adult. With Michael Kingston rogue in Switzerland hunting the Russian spy Kalaydoskop, Lynn Kingston risks everything to expose KALEIDOSCOPE within the CIA.

As MI6 officer Clive Lancer is torn between his affection for Paige and duty to Great Britain—

As Hal Kingston is asked to denounce and betray his brother—

As an evil figure with a stranglehold on Melody Kingston takes form in the shadows of Doris Kingston's past—

Silas Kingston, former CIA Chief of Counterintelligence, returns to the CIA...to service his Russian masters.

BOOK THREE: HALLOWEEN

The children carve Jack-o'-lanterns, preparing for thrills and chills in the American tradition, while Michael Kingston's descent into madness carries him to Moscow where Doris’s ghost is glimpsed in her heartbreaking past and her son’s shocking birth… Her ghost howls between Silas and Kolya Yurenev—the Russian spymaster Kalaydoskop—in their first meeting in thirty years… And it tears at Lynn’s integrity who, under counterintelligence investigation, desperately compromises an innocent code clerk.

While in Beijing, the Ministry of State Security—to counter the US and Russian programs—unleashes China's deadly answer to Kaleidoscope.

"Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists, a beautiful and compelling writer [with] a mastery of tradecraft and a deep understanding of how espionage really works." Joe Weisberg, former CIA Officer and Emmy winning creator of THE AMERICANS

Intimately personal and international in scope, Kaleidoscope is a tale of faith and betrayal, loyalty and violence, the agonies of love without truth, the secrets of KALEIDOSCOPE entangle with those of the Kingston family where for one to survive, the other must be destroyed.

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Testimonials

KALEIDOSCOPE does for the CIA what THE SOPRANOS did for the mob... The function and dysfunction of a whole family where the patriarch is ensnared in a dark and dangerous world.

MICHAEL APTED - Academy Award nominated film director of COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, ENIGMA

An utterly distinctive voice in spy fiction. Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner. Cerebral and unvarnished, with dialogue so sharp it's like dancing on hot coals.

I.S. BERRY - Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year & Edgar Award Nominee

You can set off a million firecrackers, but if you don’t have a story to tell, you have nothing but smoke... Michael Frost Beckner’s electrifying script is a thinking man’s thriller... A real adrenaline blast… I loved it!

Robert Redford

A chess game... laid out on the real world of espionage.

Brad Pitt

Among the classics… A smart, sturdy, and fascinating glimpse inside a hidden world.

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Michael Frost Beckner serves up a judicious blend of showy action, political intrigue, ticking-clock suspense and intramural CIA one-upmanship for mainstream entertainment.

Variety

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