# Muir's Gambit: The Epic Spy Game Origin Story - Paperback

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by **Michael Frost Beckner** (Author)

**_"Pass the popcorn!"_** **_AMAZON EDITORS' PICK! Vanessa Cronin, Sr. Editor_**

  

**_"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_**

  

**_"A chilling, inspired espionage thriller."_ EDITOR'S PICK _Publisher's Weekly_**

  

**Tom Bishop:** _"You don't just trade these people like they're baseball cards! It's not a game!"_

**Nathan Muir:** _"That's exactly what it is and it's no kid's game either. This is a whole other game. And it's serious. And it's dangerous. And it's not one you want to lose."_

  

**_It's 48 hours before the events of the movie classic_** **_Spy Game_** and Nathan Muir is about to see his world implode...

  

Who'd want to assassinate Charlie March? The original Cold War hero. Mentor, brother, confessor-in-chief to Nathan Muir, he's the spy who waltzed in from the cold and wrote a bestseller in the Florida sunshine.

  

But when a bomb on his yacht puts Charlie March on ice, and his dying words implicate Muir, the CIA dispatch hard-luck Agency lawyer Russell Aiken to force Muir's confession and bury forty years of dirty secrets. By legal means...or otherwise.

  

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

  

**_2023 GOLD MEDAL WINNER - BEST FIRST BOOK - Independent Publishers IPPY Awards_**

**_2022 WINNER - SPY THRILLER OF THE YEAR - Best Thrillers Book Awards_**

**_2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR, FINALIST - Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards_**

  

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

  

The protégé Muir cast aside in favor of Tom Bishop, Aiken thirsts for payback unaware that Muir launched a different kind of game for him and Bishop long ago, and Aiken has 24 hours to learn its rules, plays, and lethal stakes.

  

Epic in scope, **Muir's Gambit** sweeps from the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir to Cyprus terror bombings, Congo _coup d'états,_ Angolan proxy wars, and into the final hours of the Berlin Wall. And for two men untethered from morality, all those lies leave one final night for redemption.

  

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

**Number of Pages:** 404

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** October 17, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 32.9 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, Literary, Military, Thrillers

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