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"""A thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!"" ROBERT REDFORD, Spy Game Gladys: Feeling a little paranoid on our last day? Nathan Muir: When did Noah build the ark, Gladys? Before the rain, before the rain. Love or country? To save one you must sacrifice the other... The epic climax to the Aiken Trilogy rooted in the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt film Spy Game, it's the question faced by Nathan Muir protégé Russell Aiken when he defects to Cuba. Haunted by the ghosts of past, present, and future spies, Aiken is trapped in a lethal battle with Havana intelligence officers desperate to discover the CIA's top spy hidden inside Fidel Castro's government. Aiken must betray Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop-exposing CIA operations that link Cuba, China, and Venezuela in a startling conspiracy-in order to rescue the woman he loves...all in a single night without leaving the hotel room of his interrogation. ""The moral ambiguities of John le Carré, the technical precision of Tom Clancy, and the violent impact of Robert Ludlum."" The US Review of Books Bursting with Aiken's wit and erstwhile confusion, Aiken in Check is a love letter confession, wrapped in the haunting of three spies' dangerous past, on a Christmas Eve that by dawn will see him lose everything or become the grandmaster of the Spy Game. ""It's policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you haven't been challenged before."" TONY SCOTT director of Spy Game Buy Now and return to the world of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop, but be warned: in Spy Game, ""It's not how you play the game... It's how the game plays you."""

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Praise for Michael Frost Beckner & the Spy Game universe: Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists, a beautiful and compelling writer who also has 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 In a nutshell, the mythology of Nathan Muir is nothing short of epic, and nothing he says or does should be ignored. Electric from the get-go, Beckner's sequel is a supercharged fireball, a raging inferno of action and thrill. RECOMMENDED, The US Review of Books Muir's Gambit is part fast-paced thriller, part intricate cat-and-mouse confessional between two spies consumed by lives of betrayal and vengeance; everyone should be reading this! Michele McPhee, best-selling author, Emmy-nominated investigative journalist, and award-winning columnist Reading Michael Frost Beckner's latest episode in the Spy Game saga is like seeing Picasso's Guernica for the first time. A Cubist deconstruction of the spy trade, Bishop's Endgame traffics in what one might call Le Carre's Complications of Spying--that sense of moral responsibility--but couples it with an interior absurdist monologue worthy of Vonnegut... Bishop's Endgame bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery. Alex Abella, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award winning journalist Michael Frost Beckner serves up a judicious blend of showy action, political intrigue, ticking-clock suspense, and intramural CIA one-upmanship for mainstream entertainment. Variety You can set off a million firecrackers, but if you don't have a story to tell, you have nothing but smoke... Michael Frost Beckner's electrifying script is a thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it! Robert Redford A chess game...laid out on the real world of espionage. Brad Pitt It's policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you haven't been challenged before. Tony Scott Trades in the kind of shadings and moral quandaries that have been the meat and drink of Le Carre. The Boston Globe A taut...timely...intelligent thriller. The Washington Post Asks tough, unflinching questions about America's responsibility to maintain world peace-and the price we are willing to pay in order to accomplish that. The Miami Herald Enormously satisfying. San Francisco Chronicle Pretty, gritty, engrossing and fun. The Oregonian

Praise for Michael Frost Beckner & the Spy Game universe: Michael Frost Beckner is the rarest of spy novelists, a beautiful and compelling writer who also has 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 Muir's Gambit is part fast-paced thriller, part intricate cat-and-mouse confessional between two spies consumed by lives of betrayal and vengeance; everyone should be reading this! Michele McPhee, best-selling author, Emmy-nominated investigative journalist, and award-winning columnist Reading Michael Frost Beckner's latest episode in the Spy Game saga is like seeing Picasso's Guernica for the first time. A Cubist deconstruction of the spy trade, Bishop's Endgame traffics in what one might call Le Carre's Complications of Spying--that sense of moral responsibility--but couples it with an interior absurdist monologue worthy of Vonnegut... Bishop's Endgame bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery. Alex Abella, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award winning journalist Michael Frost Beckner serves up a judicious blend of showy action, political intrigue, ticking-clock suspense, and intramural CIA one-upmanship for mainstream entertainment. Variety You can set off a million firecrackers, but if you don't have a story to tell, you have nothing but smoke... Michael Frost Beckner's electrifying script is a thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it! Robert Redford A chess game...laid out on the real world of espionage. Brad Pitt It's policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you haven't been challenged before. Tony Scott Trades in the kind of shadings and moral quandaries that have been the meat and drink of Le Carre. The Boston Globe A taut...timely...intelligent thriller. The Washington Post Asks tough, unflinching questions about America's responsibility to maintain world peace-and the price we are willing to pay in order to accomplish that. The Miami Herald Enormously satisfying. San Francisco Chronicle Pretty, gritty, engrossing and fun. The Oregonian

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In 1989, Michael Frost Beckner's script for Sniper launched a military-thriller franchise now in production on its eighth sequel. Three consecutive record-breaking spec script sales and three films later, Tony Scott directed Beckner's original screenplay Spy Game. An international blockbuster that paired Robert Redford and Brad Pitt as CIA partners and rivals, it is now a classic in the espionage genre. Branching into television with his CIA-based drama The Agency for CBS, Beckner's pilot predicted Osama bin Laden's terror attack and the War on Terror four months before 9/11. In that series alone, Beckner would go on to predictively dramatize three more international terror events. Having penned more than twenty-five pilots for network and cable television, miniseries and docudramas, and dozens of original motion picture screenplays, adaptations, and rewrites, he is a Hollywood institution. As a commentator on American espionage, Beckner has appeared on CNN, Fox News, CBS News, TF1 in France, and as a featured guest of Bill Maher on HBO. Now, in conjunction with the twentieth anniversary of Spy Game, Beckner returns to the world of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop with the release of his trilogy of Spy Game novels: Muir's Gambit, Bishop's Endgame, and Aiken in Check.

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