“Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner.”
— I.S. Berry, Edgar Award-winning author of The Peacock and the Sparrow‍

‍THE FINAL TURN OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE‍

‍For the Kingstons, there is no refuge from the past—no line between family and betrayal, no border between legacy and blood.

‍From Michael Frost Beckner—the award-winning novelist and the screenwriter behind Spy Game, the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie classic—comes the explosive conclusion to the Kaleidoscope saga, a generational epic where love, deception, and the mechanics of power collide inside the CIA’s deepest secret.

‍“First-class spy novels with a smart, gritty atmosphere.”
— Charles Cumming, New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of Box 88 & Kennedy 35

‍‍PART SIX: NEW YEAR’S DAY

‍The year turns. The past refuses to stay buried. The secrets of KALEIDOSCOPE, the CIA’s hidden operation designed to create a false but lasting peace through energy control and the financial leverage of Covenant 17, spiral toward exposure. And the ghosts of history—the ones we inherit, the ones we make—demand their due.

As the Caspian Oil Conference ignites a global reckoning, the Kingston family faces the full consequences of their blood-soaked inheritance…

In Baku, Michael Kingston comes face-to-face with Kolya Yurenev. The last great shadow play between Russia and America will decide European hegemony through rival KALEIDOSCOPE operations. One shattering truth remains: Doris Kingston’s final secret that holds the key to Michael’s impossible choice—between the man he was forged to be, and the man he is desperate to become.

In Iraq, Hal Kingston—imprisoned by CIA defector Finn Houton—confronts a hidden force greater than Silas’s ambitions or Kolya’s schemes, one capable of igniting war beyond anything KALEIDOSCOPE ever imagined.

At Foxtail Farm, Melody Kingston’s discovery of the family’s buried crimes—their legacy of American slavery and the Place of Blackness beneath their ancestral home—becomes a battle to shield the Kingston children from the living evil of Boone Kelso.

Clive Lancer and Paige Kingston stand at the edge of new life—their child, their family, their escape—while British MI6 operatives close in, preparing to deliver ruthless, final vengeance upon Foxtail Farm.

And at the center of it all: Lynn Kingston. Facing execution inside a foreign embassy, her fate becomes the fault line between blood and mission. Silas Kingston—patriarch, spymaster, architect of KALEIDOSCOPE—confronts the inevitable choice: save his daughter and risk dismantling the one operation that could force peace…or sacrifice his own blood to preserve the fragile order holding the world together.

‍“Kaleidoscope does for the CIA what The Sopranos did for the mob.”
— Michael Apted, Academy Award-nominated director of Coal Miner’s Daughter and James Bond: The World Is Not Enough

‍Will the oldest story always find a way to repeat itself?

Espionage is never what it seems.

Bloodlines run deeper than nations. And some legacies—like KALEIDOSCOPE—refuse to die.

‍A saga of espionage, legacy, and the agonies of love without truth, Beckner’s Kaleidoscope fuses Faulkner, Arthurian myth, and the brutal mechanics of power into a spy epic that reshapes the genre—and leaves nothing untouched.