Aiken in Check: A Spy Game Novel
The Aiken Trilogy - Book 3
by Michael Frost Beckner
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Pub Date Sep 05 2022 | Archive Date Mar 01 2023
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Description
It's not how you play the GAME... It's how the game plays YOU.
Aiken in Check (The Aiken Trilogy, Book 3) finds the ill-starred but undimmed CIA lawyer Russell Aiken a defector to Cuba trapped in a battle of wits with Havana spymasters over the fate of female CIA officer Nina Estrada, kidnapped by Cuban agents on a mole hunt for the CIA's top spy in Fidel Castro's secret service.
In this second sequel to the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt #1 hit movie Spy Game, Aiken must once more navigate the thorny father-son dynamic of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop to guide them to a place of peace while at the same time effect the rescue of the woman who is his greatest romance and the love of his life-all in a single night without leaving the hotel room of his interrogation.
Bursting with Aiken's acerbic and absurdist wit, Aiken in Check is a love letter confession, wrapped in the haunting of the three men's past, inside of a Christmas deadly, over the fate of Christmases yet to come.
Advance Praise
Praise for Aiken in Check
"This is that rare novel that teaches as well as entertains. Even as it raises questions and gives answers, it invites readers to think about right and wrong, good and evil, loyalty and betrayal, and the real cost of a life lived in service to one’s country rather than one’s self." - The US Review of Books
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
"It's rare, in the thriller genre, to find such an ongoing and neat juxtaposition of interests and vying forces, [but] Michael Frost Beckner's Muir's Gambit…proves a far deeper inspection of a spy's world than most… Hard-hitting psychological insights [are] as powerfully depicted as the wider arena of world conflict for maximum impact. Libraries seeking standouts in spy literature and cat-and-mouse suspense will relish Muir's Gambit, which succeeds on so many levels that its course is not only unpredictable, but thoroughly delightful." D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
"In this prequel to the espionage thriller Spy Game, [Muir's Gambit] returns to Nathan Muir's CIA origins...[where] the line between [truth] and [lies] is blurred, often beyond recognition. Beckner consistently demonstrates a knack for taking high-stakes situations and storylines and adding an array of dimensions that deliver a more intimate connection." - 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 Carré'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
"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
"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 Spy Game is a thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!" Robert Redford on Spy Game, "Robert Redford: The Biography" by Michael Feeney Callahan
"A chess game...laid out on the real world of espionage." Brad Pitt on Spy Game, Hollywood.com/Screen Slam
"It's policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you haven't been challenged before." Tony Scott, Spy Game director
"Trades in the kind of shadings and moral quandaries that have been the meat and drink of Le Carré." The Boston Globe
"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
"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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- Cross-Promotion with the two other books in trilogy, MUIR'S GAMBIT (September 2022) and BISHOP'S ENDGAME (September 2022)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9798985597462 |
| PRICE | $28.00 (USD) |
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