{"product_id":"kaleidoscope","title":"Kaleidoscope","description":"\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\n\u003cp\u003eFrom\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Frost Beckner\u003c\/strong\u003e, creator of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpy Game\u003c\/em\u003e, the Robert Redford\/Brad Pitt spy thriller classic, comes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKaleidoscope is a novel of espionage, family, American power, and the stubborn flame of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt follows three generations of the Kingstons as their private lives become inseparable from the intelligence state they serve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e-\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI.S. Berry\u003c\/strong\u003e, Edgar Award winner,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Peacock and the Sparrow\u003c\/em\u003e, former CIA clandestine officer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the twentieth century, energy has defined power. At the center stands the family patriarch, Silas Kingston, and his black project\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKALEIDOSCOPE\u003c\/strong\u003e, a hidden architecture older than the Agency itself; it manipulates the struggle for global fuel dominance and shadows every operation in its path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor three generations the Kingstons have paid for serving\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKALEIDOSCOPE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein blood, devotion, and the lives they might otherwise have lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst this architecture moves Kolya Yurenev, the Russian spymaster at once rival, mirror, fire, and darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRelentlessly.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEqually.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd to completion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith the whole of what they should repent classified and unobservable, they are unrepentant. 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