"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 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, ENIGMA

"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

With his critically acclaimed and award-winning Muir's Gambit, Bishop's Endgame, and Aiken in Check, Michael Frost Beckner thrilled espionage fans worldwide with a return to the world of his classic Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie Spy Game.

While furthering the exploits of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop, Beckner introduced readers to new and memorable characters: Russell Aiken, Lara van Eyck, Charlie March, and Nina Alverez. But perhaps most provocative of all were CIA Chief of Counterintelligence Silas Kingston-the only person who ever outmastered Nathan Muir at the spy game-and his determined, conscientious but emotionally-scarred daughter, CIA operations manager Lynn.

Now, Beckner embarks on his most ambitious project to date: an espionage saga told in five parts to be released throughout 2024. A tale of loyalty and love, betrayal and redemption, Kaleidoscope: 4th of July expands Beckner's Spy Game universe to dig deep into the lives of three generations of a CIA family trapped in the web of the Agency's darkest secret.

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 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, and distribution-has been the key to a nation's power. Today, global demand for energy outstrips resources. As directed by Silas Kingston, KALEIDOSCOPE is the hidden hand within the CIA, 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.