"KALEIDOSCOPE does for the CIA what THE SOPRANOS did for the mob... The function and dysfunction of a whole family where the patriarch is ensnared in a dark and dangerous world." MICHAEL APTED, Academy Award nominated film director of COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, ENIGMA "Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner. Cerebral and unvarnished, with dialogue so sharp it's like dancing on hot coals." - I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW, A New Yorker & NPR Best Book of the Year With his critically acclaimed and award-winning Muir's Gambit, Bishop's Endgame, and Aiken in Check, novelist and screenwriter Michael Frost Beckner thrilled espionage fans worldwide with a return to his classic Robert Redford/Brad Pitt movie Spy Game. 4th of July expands Beckner's Spy Game universe to dig deep into the personal and professional lives of three generations of a CIA family trapped in the web of the Agency's oldest and darkest secret. Praise for the Spy Game "Pass the popcorn!" Amazon Editors' Pick, Vanessa Cronin, Sr. Editor "The top of the thriller heap." "Chilling." "Inspired." Editor's Pick, Publishers Weekly "Marvelous." "Relentlessly tense." Kirkus Reviews While furthering the exploits of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop, Beckner introduced readers to memorable new Russell Aiken, Lara van Eyck, Charlie March, and Nina Alverez. But perhaps most provocative were CIA Chief of Counterintelligence Silas Kingston—"the most feared man at Langley;" the only person who ever outmastered Nathan Muir at the spy game—and his determined, conscientious but emotionally-scarred daughter, CIA operations manager Lynn. Now, following in the footsteps of Charles Dickens and Stephen King (The Green Mile), Beckner embarks on his most ambitious project to an espionage saga told in five parts to be released throughout 2024. A tale of loyalty and love, betrayal and redemption, Kaleidoscope spins around three generations of the CIA Kingston family... PART 4TH OF JULY There are other families, neither happy nor mindfully sad; sanctioned to deception, these families kindle their lives with the flint of authorized deceit. Their pyre is "service," and it is "national security." Its flame is "duty." "Honor." And it is "faith." Thus fueled, these families allow this fire to consume their every honest emotion. Relentlessly. Equally. And to completion. "Nobody vanishes," Silas Kingston insists, but one Kingston has... A vanishing or an escape? Conspiracy, or treason? When clandestine officer Michael Kingston goes missing in Turkey, the secrets and lies of three generations of a CIA family—spies, spouses, lovers, children—collide with the most fiercely protected operation within the CIA. KALEIDOSCOPE Since the 20th century, energy—its possession, production, distribution—has been the key to a nation's power. The "why-eternal" of all conflict. Today, global demand for energy outstrips resources.