Publisher's Synopsis
ET THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN MICHAEL FROST BECKNER'S SPY GAME SERIAL KALEIDOSCOPE IN ONE VOLUME
"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
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... Dialogue so sharp it's like dancing on hot coals." - I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award-winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW
Since the 20th century, energy has been the key to every nation's power. The root of all conflict. Today, global demand outstrips resources. As directed by Silas Kingston, KALEIDOSCOPE is the hidden hand of fuel-its sources, possession, production, distribution-within the CIA. Older than the Agency itself, KALEIDOSCOPE overscores all intelligence operations with deadly efficiency.
BOOK 1: 4TH OF JULY
"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.
BOOK 2: BIRTHDAY
A celebration of bonding-deceptions, family lies, generational sin. Of covert death. Suicide and murder. Paige's 18th birthday promises everything it is to become a Kingston adult. With Michael Kingston rogue in Switzerland hunting the Russian spy Kalaydoskop, Lynn Kingston risks everything to expose KALEIDOSCOPE within the CIA.
As MI6 officer Clive Lancer is torn between his affection for Paige and duty to Great Britain... As Hal Kingston is asked to denounce and betray his brother... As an evil figure with a stranglehold on Melody Kingston takes form in the shadows of Doris Kingston's past... Silas Kingston, former CIA Chief of Counterintelligence, returns to the CIA...to service his Russian masters.
BOOK 3: HALLOWEEN
The children carve Jack-o'-lanterns, preparing for thrills and chills in the American tradition, while Michael Kingston's descent into madness carries him to Moscow where Doris's ghost is glimpsed in her heartbreaking past and her son's shocking birth... Her ghost howls between Silas and Kolya Yurenev-the Russian spymaster Kalaydoskop-in their first meeting in thirty years... And it tears at Lynn's integrity who, under counterintelligence investigation, desperately compromises an innocent code clerk.
While in Beijing, the Ministry of State Security-to counter the US and Russian programs-unleashes China's deadly answer to Kaleidoscope.
Intimately personal and international in scope, Kaleidoscope is 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.
For one to survive: the other must be destroyed.
"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
