Description:
This second sequel to the movie Spy Game sees Russell Aiken defect to Cuba to trade his life for the woman he loves, unaware he's triggered a dangerous agenda linked to Muir and Bishop in China.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
Praise for Aiken in Check
"Freighted with moral, philosophical weight...the epic climax of this trilogy...thrills as it digs deep." EDITOR'S CHOICE Publishers Weekly Booklife
"An espionage thriller that embraces more literary prowess than most genre reads and is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." Midwest Book Review
"Thoroughly mind-bending, time-twisting, betrayal-baiting... The rare novel that teaches as well as entertain." - 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
"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, from Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callahan
"A chess game...laid out on the real world of espionage." Brad Pitt, Hollywood.com/Screen Slam
"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 Carré." 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