"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.
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