Aiken in Check

EDITOR'S PICK - Publishers Weekly Booklife5/5 STARS - Foreword Clarion ReviewsHIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Midwest Book Review"Evoke[s] the best of spy scribes, such as the moral ambiguities of John le Carré, the technical precision of Tom Clancy, and the violent impact of Robert Ludlum. However, Beckner puts his own spin on these genre staples, elucidating, illuminating, and bringing on-point insights into play, as when he spells out what the intelligence game is really all about..." - The US Review of BooksIt's not how you play the GAME... It's how the game plays YOU.Aiken in Check (Aiken Trilogy, Book 3) finds the ill-starred but undimmed CIA lawyer Russell Aiken a defector to Cuba trapped in a battle of wits with Havana spymasters over the fate of female CIA agent Nina Estrada, kidnapped by Cuban agents on a mole hunt for the CIA's top spy in Fidel Castro's secret service.In this second sequel to the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt #1 hit movie Spy Game, Aiken must once more navigate the thorny father-son dynamic of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop to guide them to a place of peace while at the same time effect the rescue of the woman who is his greatest romance and the love of his life-all in a single night without leaving the hotel room of his interrogation.Bursting with Aiken's acerbic and absurdist wit, Aiken in Check is a love letter confession, wrapped in the haunting of the three men's past, inside of a Christmas deadly, over the fate of Christmas's yet to come.