Kaleidoscope Thanksgiving
(2025)(The fourth book in the Spy Game series)
A Story by Michael Frost Beckner
"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
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 now 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.
"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
KALEIDOSCOPE
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.
PART FOUR: THANKSGIVING
The season of gratitude. Of blessings. Of charity. The encroach of winter's death. In Moscow, Michael falls under the enchantment of the luminous Ludmila Sidorova, widow of a Russian energy oligarch, kept prisoner inside her world of temptation and wealth she is either Michael’s tender escape from the spy game or the last obstacle in his brutal hunt for Kalaydoskop and Kolya Yurenev and the final destruction of everything Michael holds dear.
"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
For Lynn, it is a season of giving what spies give best: duplicity, murder, execution.
As Melody confronts the ghosts of Foxtail Farm’s past, present, and future… As Hal deploys to a secret base in Iraq that has drawn the KALEIDOSCOPE ambitions and treacheries of the US, Russia, and China into a dangerous vortex… Silas Kingston must choose between his granddaughter’s love and his own assassination.
"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.
Genre: Thriller
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 now 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.
"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
KALEIDOSCOPE
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.
PART FOUR: THANKSGIVING
The season of gratitude. Of blessings. Of charity. The encroach of winter's death. In Moscow, Michael falls under the enchantment of the luminous Ludmila Sidorova, widow of a Russian energy oligarch, kept prisoner inside her world of temptation and wealth she is either Michael’s tender escape from the spy game or the last obstacle in his brutal hunt for Kalaydoskop and Kolya Yurenev and the final destruction of everything Michael holds dear.
"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
For Lynn, it is a season of giving what spies give best: duplicity, murder, execution.
As Melody confronts the ghosts of Foxtail Farm’s past, present, and future… As Hal deploys to a secret base in Iraq that has drawn the KALEIDOSCOPE ambitions and treacheries of the US, Russia, and China into a dangerous vortex… Silas Kingston must choose between his granddaughter’s love and his own assassination.
"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.
Genre: Thriller
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