{"product_id":"kaleidoscope-paperback-4","title":"Kaleidoscope - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Frost Beckner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the Kingstons, there is no refuge from the past. No line between family and consequence, no border between legacy and blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Frost Beckner\u003c\/strong\u003e, creator of \u003cem\u003eSpy Game\u003c\/em\u003e, the Robert Redford\/Brad Pitt spy thriller classic, comes \u003cstrong\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaleidoscope is a novel of espionage, family, and American power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt follows three generations of the Kingstons as their private lives become inseparable from the intelligence state and the covert project that has shaped them for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst published in six stages and revised, \u003cem\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/em\u003e appears here as a single unified novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere are other families, neither happy nor mindfully sad; sanctioned to deception, these families kindle their lives with the flint of authorized deceit.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Relentlessly.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Equally.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e And to completion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e With the whole of what they should repent classified and unobservable, they are unrepentant. Unredeemed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Kingstons of Foxtail Farm are such a family.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An utterly distinctive voice in spy fiction. Nobody captures the complexity of personal relationships, foreign affairs, and the heartbreak of espionage quite like Beckner.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eI.S. Berry\u003c\/strong\u003e, Edgar Award winner, \u003cem\u003eThe Peacock and the Sparrow\u003c\/em\u003e, former CIA clandestine officer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuty hardens into doctrine; secrecy becomes a way of life. Love, faith, and moral obligation are tested where truth is never clean and justice cannot survive the institution meant to protect it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Michael Kingston vanishes in Turkey, everything the family has managed, concealed, and survived begins to turn. The crisis falls to his sister Lynn, a CIA headquarters officer already at war with grief, duty, and drink. Through her, the structure that has governed the Kingstons' world begins to come undone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind that crisis moves Kolya Yurenev, the Russian spymaster at once rival, mirror, flame, and darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Michael Frost Beckner captures the essence of spies-the cat-and-mouse choreography of espionage as it is lived, not imagined.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTony Mendez\u003c\/strong\u003e, CIA Trailblazer and former Chief of Disguise, and \u003cstrong\u003eJonna Mendez\u003c\/strong\u003e, former CIA Chief of Disguise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the twentieth century, energy has defined power. Beneath Langley's surface, Silas Kingston's black project \u003cstrong\u003eKALEIDOSCOPE\u003c\/strong\u003e manipulates global fuel dominance. Older than the Agency itself, it shadows every operation, and for three generations the Kingstons have paid for serving it in loyalty, future, and self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel moves the way its title suggests. Scenes turn, realign across decades as memory and consequence collide: slavery, power, original sin; children reared on Arthurian fairytales whose ideals of justice, love, and sacrifice become both armor and wound, and the voices of the past press steadily into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA saga of espionage, legacy, and the cost of love without truth, \u003cstrong\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/strong\u003e joins literary ambition to the velocity of the intelligence novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Weisberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, creator of \u003cem\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1050\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.35 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53246643994931,"sku":"9798992993271","price":57.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SNUtjDH6xY9798992993271.webp?v=1776291478","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/kaleidoscope-paperback-4","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}