Description:
The Spy Game movie sequel, when all Muir's spy networks vanish and his agent Tom Bishop goes rogue in Malaysia, it's CIA lawyer Russell Aiken--Bishop's best friend--dispatched from Langley to kill him.
Brief description: "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"Tony Mendez and I have been fans of Michael Beckner's work for many years - from The Agency, through Spy Game and his trilogy of Spy Game books. He captures the essence of spies and the cat and mouse choreography of espionage." Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise"[Beckner] evoke[s]...the moral ambiguities of John le Carré, the technical precision of Tom Clancy, and the violent impact of Robert Ludlum." US Review of Books After a degree in Novel Writing from University of Southern California under PEN/Faulkner winner T.C. Boyle, Michael Frost Beckner began a Hollywood career as writing assistant to Academy Award winner Barry Levinson on "Good Morning, Vietnam" and "Rain Man". In 1989, Michael Frost Beckner's script for "Sniper" launched a military-thriller franchise now in production on its ninth 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 close to 100 original screenplays, adaptations, and teleplays in the employ of every major film studio, television network, and cable outlet, 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."He makes his home with his family in the Red Rock foothills of Las Vegas, Nevada
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"There's nothing like Michael Frost Beckner's Aiken Trilogy. Laced with absurdity and stylistically daring...[what] sets Beckner's series apart even from the top of the thriller heap... [is] as a stylist he's a showman, a razzle-dazzle sentence crafter adept (like his mentor, T.C. Boyle) at catching readers up in the minds of protagonists whose lives seem to be spinning out of control." EDITOR'S PICK! Publishers Weekly Booklife
"CIA officers search for elusive truths in a world of startling secrets and double crossings in Beckner's sequel... Aiken makes a compelling, edgy narrator...and the plot gleefully spins off into a series of revelations and brief but explosive action scenes...A marvelous narrator ignites an engaging story of spies, deceit, and murky history." Kirkus Reviews
"Bishop's Endgame, the sequel to Muir's Gambit (voted The Year's Best Spy Thriller), is a mesmerizing, sophisticated and hugely successful espionage novel that echoes-and even rivals-Conrad's Heart of Darkness." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Best Thrillers Reviews
"The moral ambiguities of John le Carré, the technical precision of Tom Clancy, and the violent impact of Robert Ludlum... 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
"Bishop's Endgame is a frenetic thriller in which two men confront their mortality while struggling with the loss of a legendary spy. A rapid-fire and fascinating tale." 5 STARS! Foreword Clarion Reviews