Bishop's Endgame

EDITOR'S PICK - Publishers Weekly Booklife5/5 STARS - Foreword Clarion ReviewsHIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Midwest Book Review"In a world of startling secrets and double crossings…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"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 BooksIt's not how you play the GAME... It's how the game plays YOU.The sequel to the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt #1 hit movie Spy Game, Bishop's Endgame (Aiken Trilogy, Book 2) picks up a decade after Redford's Nathan Muir escaped CIA headquarters after a double-cross of his Langley rivals in the successful rescue of Brad Pitt's Tom Bishop and his wife, international aid worker Elizabeth Hadley (Catherine McCormick in the film), from a Chinese prison.Now Muir is retired to Princeton University where, as a professor of mythology, he keeps his hand in the spy game working as a CIA recruiter, while Tom Bishop-rogue in Kosovo-fights a private war against the ethnic cleansing his former Agency has turned its back on.But when all of Muir's former agent networks vanish worldwide and Bishop is dragged in from the cold to rescue Muir's last spy from Malaysia, it once again falls to manic, somewhat delusional, CIA lawyer Russell Aiken to run interference for the Agency without managing to set off a civil war. Yet, what Aiken lacks in self-awareness he more than makes up by his unusual loyalty to both men trapped by a remorseless father-son struggle between spies.Bishop's Endgame is a CIA house of mirrors where life and death operations hinge on the unravelling of past secrets, personal loyalties slam against hard walls of institutional betrayal, and the clock strikes as enemies within the Agency are revealed sometimes as deadly as the foreign enemies without.