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Kaleidoscope: The Complete Revised Novel Edition
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Montrose Station Press LLC
Published: Apr 6 2026
Pages: 1050
Weight: 3.03
Height: 2.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For the Kingstons, there is no refuge from the past. No line between family and consequence, no border between legacy and blood.
From Michael Frost Beckner, creator of Spy Game, the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt spy thriller classic, comes Kaleidoscope.
Kaleidoscope is a novel of espionage, family, American power, and the stubborn flame of love.
It follows three generations of the Kingstons as their private lives become inseparable from the intelligence state they serve.
When Michael Kingston, a CIA field officer, 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.
No one in the family is left untouched. Spouses, lovers, children. Some innocent. Some not. All victim to the covert project that has shaped this CIA family for decades.
An utterly distinctive voice in spy fiction. Nobody captures the complexity of personal relationships, foreign affairs, and the heartbreak of espionage quite like Beckner.
- I.S. Berry, Edgar Award winner, The Peacock and the Sparrow, former CIA clandestine officer
Since the twentieth century, energy has defined power. At the center stands the family patriarch, Silas Kingston, and his black project KALEIDOSCOPE, a hidden architecture older than the Agency itself; it manipulates the struggle for global fuel dominance and shadows every operation in its path.
For three generations the Kingstons have paid for serving KALEIDOSCOPE in blood, devotion, and the lives they might otherwise have lived.
Against this architecture moves Kolya Yurenev, the Russian spymaster at once rival, mirror, fire, and darkness.
There are other families, neither happy nor mindfully sad; sanctioned to deception, these families kindle their lives with the flint of authorized deceit.
Relentlessly.
Equally.
And to completion.
With the whole of what they should repent classified and unobservable, they are unrepentant. Unredeemed.
The Kingstons of Foxtail Farm are such a family.
Michael Frost Beckner captures the essence of spies-the cat-and-mouse choreography of espionage as it is lived, not imagined.
- Tony Mendez, CIA Trailblazer and former Chief of Disguise, and Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise
The 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.
A saga of espionage, legacy, and the struggle to keep love and truth alive, Kaleidoscope joins literary ambition to the velocity of the intelligence novel.
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, creator of The Americans
First published in six stages and revised, Kaleidoscope appears here as a single unified novel.
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