Kaleidoscope Christmas Eve

<p><strong>Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner. - I.S. BERRY Edgar Award-winning Author of <em>THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW</em> A <em>New Yorker</em> & NPR Best Book of the Year</strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>For the Kingstons there is no refuge from the past-no border between family and betrayal no line between history and blood.</em></p><p> </p><p> From Michael Frost Beckner-the award-winning novelist and screenwriter of <strong><em>Spy Game</em></strong> the classic Robert Redford/Brad Pitt thriller-comes his boldest experiment in espionage: <strong><em>Kaleidoscope</em></strong> a multi-part saga expanding the <strong><em>Spy Game</em></strong> universe across three generations of CIA Kingstons caught between the secrets they serve and the legacies they can't escape.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>CHRISTMAS EVE - PART FIVE OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE SAGA</strong></p><p> </p><p> The Yule log burns at Foxtail Farm. But the season of hope-of peace of redemption-cannot smother the ghosts clawing through the walls or the violence racing toward them.</p><p> </p><p> Melody Kingston uncovers the buried heart of her family's legacy: the Place of Blackness beneath their ancestral land-the scars of American slavery rebellion and betrayal that refuse to die.</p><p> </p><p> Three miles away in the diplomatic shadows of Washington Lynn Kingston faces death for a crime she didn't commit-trapped in the ruthless power struggle between Russia the CIA and the ghost network known as Kalaydoskop.</p><p> </p><p> Across the world Michael Kingston is poised between exile and vengeance. His love for Lulu Voronina the life of her child and a brutal boar hunt in the Russian wilderness draw him deeper into the lies of his lineage-and the fracturing spiral of the world's final resource: war.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>KALEIDOSCOPE does for the CIA what <em>The Sopranos</em> did for the mob. - MICHAEL APTED Oscar-nominated Director of <em>COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER</em> & <em>JAMES BOND: THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH</em></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>KALEIDOSCOPE</strong></p><p> </p><p> Since the 20th century energy has defined power. Wars are fought over it. Empires fall without it. But beneath Langley's polished surface Silas Kingston's black project-KALEIDOSCOPE-pulls unseen strings manipulating global oil to hold nations together... or bring them to collapse.</p><p> </p><p> For three generations the Kingston family has served that secret. It has cost them their loyalties their futures and themselves.</p><p> </p><p> Now as the Caspian Sea Oil Conference approaches as power fractures across Washington Baku and Moscow KALEIDOSCOPE is revealed for what it truly is: a dangerous dream of peace-or the final turn toward global destruction.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists-a beautiful compelling writer with a mastery of tradecraft and the brutal human cost of espionage. - JOE WEISBERG former CIA Officer and Emmy-winning Creator of <em>THE AMERICANS</em></strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>A saga of espionage legacy and the agonies of love without truth Beckner's Kaleidoscope fuses Faulkner Arthurian myth and the merciless mechanics of power into a spy epic unlike any other.</em></p>