"Pass the popcorn!" AMAZON EDITORS' PICK! Vanessa Cronin, Sr. Editor
"Brilliantly executed...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
"[There's] nobody quite like Beckner. Dialogue so sharp it's like dancing on hot coals. You'll swallow this book whole." - I.S. BERRY, author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year
"A chilling, inspired espionage thriller." EDITOR'S PICK Publisher's Weekly
Tom Bishop:"You don't just trade these people like they're baseball cards! It's not a game!"
Nathan Muir: "That's exactly what it is and it's no kid's game either. This is a whole other game. And it's serious. And it's dangerous. And it's not one you want to lose."
It's 48 hours before the events of the movie classic Spy Game and Nathan Muir is about to see his world implode...
Who'd want to assassinate Charlie March? The original Cold War hero. Mentor, brother, confessor-in-chief to Nathan Muir, he's the spy who waltzed in from the cold and wrote a bestseller in the Florida sunshine.
But when a bomb on his yacht puts Charlie March on ice, and his dying words implicate Muir, the CIA dispatch hard-luck Agency lawyer Russell Aiken to force Muir's confession and bury forty years of dirty secrets. By legal means...or otherwise.
"A thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!" ROBERT REDFORD, Spy Game
2023 GOLD MEDAL WINNER - BEST FIRST BOOK - Independent Publishers IPPY Awards
2022 WINNER - SPY THRILLER OF THE YEAR - Best Thrillers Book Awards
2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR, FINALIST - Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards
"Relentlessly tense... This smashing espionage tale kicks off what promises to be a smart, indelible series." Kirkus Reviews
The protégé Muir cast aside in favor of Tom Bishop, Aiken thirsts for payback unaware that Muir launched a different kind of game for him and Bishop long ago, and Aiken has 24 hours to learn its rules, plays, and lethal stakes.
Epic in scope, Muir's Gambit sweeps from the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir to Cyprus terror bombings, Congo coup d'états, Angolan proxy wars, and into the final hours of the Berlin Wall. And for two men untethered from morality, all those lies leave one final night for redemption.
"It's policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you haven't been challenged before." TONY SCOTT Spy Game
"A chess game...laid out in the real world of espionage." BRAD PITT Spy Game
Buy Now and return to the world of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop but be warned: in Spy Game "It's not how you play the game... It's how the game plays you."
Michael Frost Beckner revs up a new series rooted in his original film SPY GAME, which was a huge influence on my early novels. What a pleasure to be back in the company of Tom Bishop and Nathan Muir in these brilliantly executed sequels. Full of twists and turns, 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
what a pleasure to be back in the company of tom bishop and nathan muir in these brilliantly executed sequels. full of twists and turns, 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
Relentlessly tense... This smashing espionage tale kicks off what promises to be a smart, indelible series.
Kirkus Reviews
Charged, vivid prose, electric dialogue, and an encyclopedic command of 20th century espionage and culture keep the pages turning until a pained, satisfying ending... A chilling, inspired espionage thriller.
Publishers Weekly - editor's choice
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
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