"Nobody captures espionage quite like Beckner." - I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW "Laced with absurdity and stylistically daring... Beckner is a razzle-dazzle showman at the top of the thriller heap." EDITOR'S PICK, Publishers Weekly 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. "B rilliantly executed...with a smart, gritty atmosphere." - CHARLES CUMMING , International Best-selling Author of BOX 88 and KENNEDY 35 "Michael Frost Beckner delivers a masterclass in intrigue, betrayal, and the true cost of loyalty."  - BRUCE BORGOS, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Porter Beck Mysteries 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... "A mesmerizing, sophisticated and hugely successful espionage novel that rivals Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Best Thrillers Reviews 2023 WINNER - BEST SUSPENSE THRILLER - BRONZE MEDAL - IPPY Awards "A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!" ROBERT REDFORD 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 chess game...laid out in the real world of espionage." BRAD PITT 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." "There's nothing like Michael Frost Beckner's Aiken Trilogy. Laced with absurdity and stylistically daring...[what] sets Beckner's series apart even from the top of the thriller heap... [is] as a stylist he's a showman, a razzle-dazzle sentence crafter adept (like his mentor, T.C. Boyle) at catching readers up in the minds of protagonists whose lives seem to be spinning out of control." EDITOR'S PICK! Publishers Weekly Booklife "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 "Beckner is an utterly distinctive voice in spy fiction. Nobody captures the halls of mirrors, the complexity of personal relationships, and betrayals of 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 "CIA officers search for elusive truths in a world of startling secrets and double crossings in Beckner's sequel... Aiken makes a compelling, edgy narrator...and the plot gleefully spins off into a series of revelations and brief but explosive action scenes...A marvelous narrator ignites an engaging story of spies, deceit, and murky history." Kirkus Reviews "Impossible to put down, Bishop's Endgame, the sequel to Muir's Gambit (voted The Year's Best Spy Thriller), is a mesmerizing, sophisticated and hugely successful espionage novel that echoes—and even rivals—Conrad's Heart of Darkness." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Best Thrillers Reviews "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 "The moral ambiguities of John le Carré, the technical precision of Tom Clancy, and the violent impact of Robert Ludlum... 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 "[Bish