# Aiken In Check: A Spy Game Novel - Hardcover

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by **Michael Frost Beckner** (Author)

**_"Freighted with moral, philosophical weight, Aiken in Check pits the restless, free-associating mind of its CIA narrator, Russell Aiken, against the Agency itself in this epic climax of the Spy Game Trilogy that thrills as it digs deep."_ EDITOR'S PICK _Publisher's 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_**

**Gladys**: Feeling a little paranoid on our last day?

**Nathan Muir**: When did Noah build the ark, Gladys? Before the rain, before the rain.

**_Love or country? To save one you must sacrifice the other... The epic climax to the Aiken Trilogy rooted in the Robert Redford/Brad Pitt film Spy Game_**, it's the question faced by Nathan Muir protégé Russell Aiken when he defects to Cuba.

Haunted by the ghosts of past, present, and future spies, Aiken is trapped in a lethal battle with Havana intelligence officers desperate to discover the CIA's top spy hidden inside Fidel Castro's government.

Aiken must betray Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop-exposing CIA operations that link Cuba, China, and Venezuela in a startling conspiracy-in order to rescue the woman he loves...all in a single night without leaving the hotel room of his interrogation.

**_2023 FINALIST, BEST THRILLER AWARDS "Aiken in Check is one of the year's best spy thrillers." - BestThrillers_**

**_"Reading Beckner's Spy Game saga is like seeing Picasso's Guernica for the first time. A Cubist deconstruction of the spy trade coupled with an interior absurdist monologue worthy of Vonnegut." Alex Abella, New York Times Notable Author & Emmy Award-winning journalist_**

**_"It's policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you haven't been challenged before." TONY SCOTT director of Spy Game_**

**_Bursting with Aiken's wit and erstwhile confusion, Aiken in Check_** is a love letter confession, wrapped in the haunting of three spies' dangerous past, on a mind-bending, time-twisting, betrayal-baiting Christmas Eve that by dawn will see him lose everything or become the grandmaster of the Spy Game.

**_"A thinking man's thriller... A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!"_ ROBERT REDFORD, _Spy Game_**

**_"The moral ambiguities of John le Carré, the technical precision of Tom Clancy, and the violent impact of Robert Ludlum."_ The US Review of Books**

**Buy Now** and return to the world of Nathan Muir and Tom Bishop, but be warned: in the Spy Game, **_"It's not how you play the game... It's how the game plays you."_**

**Number of Pages:** 514

**Dimensions:** 1.31 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2022

## Details

- **Price:** 47.32 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, Literary, Media Tie-In, Thrillers

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