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Muir’s Gambit (The Aiken Trilogy, #1)

Michael Frost Beckner
3.77/5 (59 ratings)
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"Michael Frost Beckner revs up a new series rooted in his original film SPY GAME, which was a huge influence on my early novels. What a pleasure to be back in the company of Tom Bishop and Nathan Muir in these brilliantly executed sequels. Full of twists and turns, 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

2022 WINNER, Spy Thriller of the Year - The BestThrillers Book Awards
2023 WINNER, Gold Medal, Best First Book - IPPY Awards
2022 THRILLER & SUSPENSE FINALIST - Foreword Reviews INDIES
2023 WINNER, Bronze Medal, Best Cover Design - IPPY Awards

EDITOR'S PICK - Publishers Weekly Booklife
5/5 STARS - Foreword Clarion Reviews
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Midwest Book Review

"Relentlessly tense... This smashing espionage tale kicks off what promises to be a smart, indelible series." Kirkus Reviews

"A brilliant opening salvo in the author's Aiken trilogy. Espionage fans looking for an alternative to standardized spy-thriller tropes will find plenty to entertain them in this satisfyingly offbeat offering." BlueInk Reviews

It’s not how you play the GAME… It’s how the game plays YOU.

A prequel to his #1 hit motion picture, the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt thriller Spy Game, Michael Frost Beckner’s Muir’s Gambit opens with the assassination of retired CIA hero Charlie March. Mentor to Redford’s Nathan Muir, by his murder, Charlie March presents Langley the perfect opportunity to rid themselves of Cold War dinosaur Muir.

Set 48-hours before the events of Spy Game, Muir’s Gambit introduces hard-luck CIA lawyer Russell Aiken dispatched to force Muir’s confession. For Aiken, it’s as much an escape as an assignment. Running from a crime of passion, he’s the protégé Muir cast aside in favor of Tom Bishop. Tormented by Muir’s denial of his ambitions, Aiken thirsts for payback unaware that Muir launched a different game for him long ago, and he has 24-hours to learn its rules, plays, and stakes.

As the two spies play at a dangerous cat-and-mouse interrogation over the dark underbelly of forty years of CIA operations, conspiracies, assassinations, and deadly secrets, Muir’s Gambit works as a dual confession by two unreliable narrators.

A scathing indictment of Cold War spy games, Muir’s Gambit is also an examination of the human condition, the cost to the soul when moral men sanctioned to do the immoral, have one night to regain some shred of decency before the dawn, and come to terms over the one moral spy, Tom Bishop, who stands between them.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
404 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Montrose Station Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
9798985597400
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Muir’s Gambit (The Aiken Trilogy, #1)

Michael Frost Beckner
3.77/5 (59 ratings)
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"Michael Frost Beckner revs up a new series rooted in his original film SPY GAME, which was a huge influence on my early novels. What a pleasure to be back in the company of Tom Bishop and Nathan Muir in these brilliantly executed sequels. Full of twists and turns, 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

2022 WINNER, Spy Thriller of the Year - The BestThrillers Book Awards
2023 WINNER, Gold Medal, Best First Book - IPPY Awards
2022 THRILLER & SUSPENSE FINALIST - Foreword Reviews INDIES
2023 WINNER, Bronze Medal, Best Cover Design - IPPY Awards

EDITOR'S PICK - Publishers Weekly Booklife
5/5 STARS - Foreword Clarion Reviews
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Midwest Book Review

"Relentlessly tense... This smashing espionage tale kicks off what promises to be a smart, indelible series." Kirkus Reviews

"A brilliant opening salvo in the author's Aiken trilogy. Espionage fans looking for an alternative to standardized spy-thriller tropes will find plenty to entertain them in this satisfyingly offbeat offering." BlueInk Reviews

It’s not how you play the GAME… It’s how the game plays YOU.

A prequel to his #1 hit motion picture, the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt thriller Spy Game, Michael Frost Beckner’s Muir’s Gambit opens with the assassination of retired CIA hero Charlie March. Mentor to Redford’s Nathan Muir, by his murder, Charlie March presents Langley the perfect opportunity to rid themselves of Cold War dinosaur Muir.

Set 48-hours before the events of Spy Game, Muir’s Gambit introduces hard-luck CIA lawyer Russell Aiken dispatched to force Muir’s confession. For Aiken, it’s as much an escape as an assignment. Running from a crime of passion, he’s the protégé Muir cast aside in favor of Tom Bishop. Tormented by Muir’s denial of his ambitions, Aiken thirsts for payback unaware that Muir launched a different game for him long ago, and he has 24-hours to learn its rules, plays, and stakes.

As the two spies play at a dangerous cat-and-mouse interrogation over the dark underbelly of forty years of CIA operations, conspiracies, assassinations, and deadly secrets, Muir’s Gambit works as a dual confession by two unreliable narrators.

A scathing indictment of Cold War spy games, Muir’s Gambit is also an examination of the human condition, the cost to the soul when moral men sanctioned to do the immoral, have one night to regain some shred of decency before the dawn, and come to terms over the one moral spy, Tom Bishop, who stands between them.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
404 pages
Publication:
2022
Publisher:
Montrose Station Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
9798985597400
kindle Asin:

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