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"KALEIDOSCOPE does for the CIA what THE SOPRANOS did for the mob. " MICHAEL APTED, Academy Award nominated film director of JAMES BOND 007 - THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, ENIGMA, COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER

With Spy Game: The Aiken Trilogy, award-winning novelist and screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner thrilled espionage fans with his return to the world of his classic Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie thriller Spy Game.

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.

"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

KALEIDOSCOPE

Since the 20th century, energy—its possession, production, distribution—has been the key to every nation's power. The "why-eternal" of all conflict. Today, global demand for energy outstrips resources. As directed by Silas Kingston, KALEIDOSCOPE is the hidden hand within the CIA, older than the Agency itself, overscoring all intelligence operations with deadly efficiency.

PART THREE: HALLOWEEN

Summer fades, the fall winds blow, the children carve Jack-o’-lanterns, assemble costumes, and prepare to be happily scared in the American tradition. While in Beijing, Colonel Cheng Li-Qiang of the Ministry of State Security assumes command of Wànhuātǒng—China’s deadly answer to Kaleidoscope.

"Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner." - I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award-winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year

With the murder of his Swiss asset, Helene Farve, 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 can be heard howling its rage between Silas and Kolya Yurenev—the Russian spymaster Kalaydoskop—in their first meeting in thirty years… And it tears at Lynn’s integrity who, desperate to find a backdoor into Kaleidoscope, ruthlessly compromises an innocent code clerk inside the Azerbaijan embassy.

As Silas “recruits” Paige into a counterintelligence operation against the United Kingdom’s MI6 bent on vengeance; as Hal falls under the sway of Morton Drexler whose lust to destroy the Kingstons consumes him; Melody Kingston steels herself for her father’s release from prison and his devious assault on Foxtail Farm.

"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

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, pitting the survival of one against the destruction of the other.

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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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