"Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner. Dialogue so sharp it's like dancing on hot coals." - I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award-winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year
With his critically acclaimed and award-winning books Muir's Gambit, Bishop's Endgame & Aiken in Check, novelist/screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner thrilled espionage fans worldwide with a return to his classic Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie Spy Game.
Now, following in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and Stephen King's The Green Mile, Beckner expands the Spy Game universe with his most ambitious project to date: an espionage saga told in five parts, released from March to December 2024.
A tale of faith and betrayal, loyalty, violence, and the agonies of love without truth, Kaleidoscope centers on three generations of the CIA Kingston family trapped in the web of the Agency's oldest and darkest secret.
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.
PART TWO: BIRTHDAY
Against the backdrop of Paige Kingston's eighteenth birthday, Part Two of Kaleidoscope sees Michael Kingston rogue from the CIA and hunting Russian spy "Kalaydoskop" to uncover his connection to the Kingston family's past. While at headquarters, Lynn Kingston risks everything to penetrates KALEIDOSCOPE from within the CIA.
As MI6 officer Clive Lancer is torn between his feelings for Paige and his duty to Great Britain-
As Hal Kingston is asked to denounce and betray his brother-
As an evil figure with a hold over Melody's future and Doris Kingston's past takes form in the shadows-
Silas Kingston, former Chief of Counterintelligence, returns to the CIA...to service his KGB masters.
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.