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"""KALEIDOSCOPE does for the CIA what THE SOPRANOS did for the mob."" MICHAEL APTED, Academy Award nominated film director of COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, ENIGMA With his critically acclaimed and award-winning Muir's Gambit, Bishop's Endgame, and Aiken in Check, novelist and screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner thrilled espionage fans worldwide with a return to his classic Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie 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. ""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 PART ONE: 4TH OF JULY There are other families, neither happy nor mindfully sad; sanctioned to deception, these families kindle their lives with the flint of authorized deceit. Their pyre is ""service,"" and it is ""national security."" Its flame is ""duty."" ""Honor."" And it is ""faith."" Thus fueled, these families allow this fire to consume their every honest emotion. Relentlessly. Equally. And to completion. ""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. KALEIDOSCOPE Since the 20th century, energy-its possession, production, distribution-has been the key to a 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 operations. Intimately personal and international in scope, the secrets of KALEIDOSCOPE entwine with those of the Kingston family, pitting the survival of one against the destruction of the other. BUY NOW and receive A SPY GAME BONUS! Three preview chapters of Beckner's upcoming (Fall 2024) Spy Game novel, Drought - Book I of The Muir Trilogy."

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"""Michael Frost Beckner revs up a new series rooted in his original film SPY GAME... 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists, a beautiful and compelling writer who also has 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner's work bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery."" - ALEX ABELLA, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award-winning journalist ""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 ""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 ""Beckner is an utterly distinctive voice in spy fiction. Nobody captures the halls of mirrors, the complexity of personal relationships, and betrayals of 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner revs up a new series rooted in his original film SPY GAME... 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists, a beautiful and compelling writer who also has 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner's work bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery."" - ALEX ABELLA, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award-winning journalist ""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 ""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"

"""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 ""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"

"""Michael Frost Beckner revs up a new series rooted in his original film SPY GAME... 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists, a beautiful and compelling writer who also has 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 ""Michael Frost Beckner's work bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery."" - ALEX ABELLA, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award-winning journalist ""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 ""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"

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