Kaleidoscope New Year's Day: A Spy Game Serial Part 6 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798992993257)

"Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner."

- I.S. Berry, Edgar Award-winning author of The Peacock and the Sparrow

THE FINAL TURN OF THE KALEIDOSCOPE

For the Kingstons, there has never been refuge from the past. Only inheritance.

From Michael Frost Beckner-the award-winning novelist and the screenwriter behind Spy Game, the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie classic-comes the explosive conclusion to the Kaleidoscope saga, a generational epic where love, deception, and the mechanics of power collide inside the CIA's deepest secret.

"First-class spy novels with a smart, gritty atmosphere."

- Charles Cumming, New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of Box 88 & Kennedy 35

PART SIX: NEW YEAR'S DAY

Across six novels, the Kaleidoscope saga has followed one American intelligence family as it built peace through manipulation, engineered stability through secrecy, and called cruelty strategy. Now the inheritance comes due.

As the world tilts toward a new year, the hidden architecture of KALEIDOSCOPE begins to fracture. Old alliances resurface. Buried crimes rise. The myth the Kingstons built to justify themselves can no longer contain the truth.

In Baku, Michael Kingston faces Kolya Yurenev and the secret that shaped his life - a revelation that forces him to choose between legacy and mercy.

At Foxtail Farm, the past closes in on the present. The sins beneath the house refuse to stay buried. Children stand where their parents once stood.

And at the center of it all is Lynn Kingston - her fate the fault line between family and mission.

Silas Kingston - patriarch, spymaster, architect of KALEIDOSCOPE - must decide whether to save his daughter and watch his life's work collapse... or preserve the system he built by sacrificing his own blood.

Empires fall. Institutions rot. Families endure - or they don't.

Kaleidoscope: New Year's Day is the mythic conclusion to a generational epic of espionage, inheritance, and the cost of calling power virtue. In the end, the oldest story asserts itself: what we build to control history may be the very thing that destroys us.

"Kaleidoscope does for the CIA what The Sopranos did for the mob."

- Michael Apted, Academy Award-nominated director of Coal Miner's Daughter and James Bond: The World Is Not Enough

A saga of espionage, legacy, and the agonies of love without truth, Beckner's Kaleidoscope fuses Faulkner, Arthurian myth, and the brutal mechanics of power into a spy epic that reshapes the genre-and leaves nothing untouched.