Bishop's Endgame: Sequel to the movie classic Spy Game
"Laced with absurdity & stylistically daring... Beckner's a razzle-dazzle showman at the top of the thriller heap." EDITOR'S PICK, Publishers Weekly
"Brilliantly executed...these are first-class spy novels with a smart, gritty atmosphere." - CHARLES CUMMING, New York Times & Sunday Times Best-selling Author of KENNEDY 35 and BOX 88
"With an interior, absurdist monologue worthy of Vonnegut...Bishop's Endgame bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery." ALEX ABELLA, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award-winning journalist
Tom Bishop: All right, so what else? What else do I need to know?
Nathan Muir: Put away some money so you can die someplace warm. And don't ever touch it. Not for anyone. Ever.
Bishop: Okay, is that it?
Nathan Muir: Don't ever risk your life for an asset. If it comes down to you or them...send flowers.
Ten years have passed since Nathan Muir rescued Tom Bishop from a Suzhou Prison and escaped the CIA for good. Now, all his former agents have suddenly vanished leaving the CIA blinded around the globe.
Then a coded message comes in from Malaysia with astonishing news: a lone spy has survived the mysterious purge. There's just one catch. He'll only reveal himself to the man Langley trusts less and despises more than Nathan Muir: Tom Bishop...
"Startling secrets... Double crossings... Explosive action... A marvelous narrator ignites an engaging story of spies, deceit, and murky history." KIRKUS REVIEWS
2023 BRONZE MEDAL WINNER - BEST SUSPENSE THRILLER - IPPY Awards
"A mesmerizing, sophisticated and hugely successful espionage novel that echoes - and even rivals - Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Best Thrillers Reviews
"A chess game...laid out in the real world of espionage." BRAD PITT, Spy Game
Told by remarkably hapless but doggedly faithful CIA lawyer Russell Aiken, in Bishop's Endgame, Tom Bishop and Nathan Muir will have their final face-off along a border between two countries, two centuries, two world orders; between life and death and two versions of themselves: who they want to be and who the Spy Game makes them.
"A thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!" ROBERT REDFORD, Spy Game
Buy Now and return to the world of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop but be warned: in Spy Game, "It's not how you play the game... It's how the game plays you."
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Praise for Beckner & Bishop's Endgame:
"Tony Mendez and I have been fans of Michael Frost Beckner's work for many years. From Spy Game, through the Aiken Trilogy of Spy Game books: Michael's writing takes you into the intricacies of the cat and mouse aspects of spying, and the choreography of working on the street in other cultures. We have always been two of his most enthusiastic readers!" Jonna Mendez, former CIA Chief of Disguise
"Reading Michael Frost Beckner's latest episode in the Spy Game saga is like seeing Picasso's Guernica for the first time. A Cubist deconstruction of the spy trade, Bishop's Endgame traffics in what one might call Le Carré's Complications of Spying--that sense of moral responsibility--but couples it with an interior absurdist monologue worthy of Vonnegut... Bishop's Endgame bears the unmistakable stamp of unprecedented mastery." Alex Abella, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award winning journalist
"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
Praise for 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
"Muir's Gambit is part fast-paced thriller, part intricate cat-and-mouse confessional between two spies consumed by lives of betrayal and vengeance; everyone should be reading this!" Michele McPhee, best-selling author, Emmy-nominated investigative journalist, and award-winning columnist
"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
"Gritty, engrossing, and fun!" The Oregonian
