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In 1959, Castro took the vital step to nationalize the bat guano caves...and ban Santa Claus.

The Cuban DI has always beaten us, Russell. To save the love of your life, youll be required to sacrifice your country.

Nina is my country now.

Then go, but if you dont bring your best game, you will have sacrificed both your lives, and theyll rape and torture Nina out of spite before they put a bullet in her skull.

The Hotel Florida, Havana. Christmas Eve.

Hapless but ever-striving CIA lawyer Russell Aiken defects to Fidel Castros Cuba. Unlucky in love as he is at treason, Aiken is in the unenviable position of having to betray his country to save the life of Nina Estrada, his one true love.

Nina: met, loved, and lost on an LSD-fueled one-night stand in 1978. Years later, revealed as Nathan Muirs asset hidden from Aiken over two decades, the pair reunite at the old spymasters wake. But their chance at a happily ever after is dashed when Nina is abducted by Cuban agents, and Aiken must infiltrate Havana to trade his life for hers.

As Aikens love-letter confession divulges secrets past, present, and yet to come, the untested Amy Kim works inside the Office of Technical Service to create a device to neutralize Aikens usefulness to Cuba. But with Aikens treason exposing the CIAs top spy in Castros inner circle, deadly events in Cuba and Venezuela are discovered to share a hidden connection to Bishop and Muir, and the final truth behind Bishops capture Spy Gamedraws Muirs deadliest enemy from the shadows.

The one Langley spymaster Muir was unable to beat in his lifetime, the man who engineered the destruction of Bishop and Muirs relationship, Silas Kingston is part of a CIA within the CIA andinside Russias former KGB known as KALEIDOSCOPE.

With Aiken in Check, Beckner brings full circle the existential toll the spy game takes on its players. From the deadly costs of lives lived as lies in Muirs Gambit, to the impact lifelong deceit has on the perception of identity portrayed in Bishops Endgame, this final novel in the Aiken Trilogy exposes how those two conditions, fraudulence and false identity, deconstruct a spys primary objective: the exchange of information...which just so happens to be the basic building block of reality.

In a world where deception piles upon deception, will Aiken lose all he loves and honors, or will he assume Muirs mantle to become grandmaster of the Spy Game?

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"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." EDITORS PICK Publishers 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, its 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 CIAs top spy hidden inside Fidel Castros 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 years best spy thrillers." - BestThrillers

"Reading Beckners Spy Game saga is like seeing Picassos 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

"Its policy versus heart... Will challenge you in ways you havent been challenged before." TONY SCOTT director of Spy Game

Bursting with Aikens 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 mans 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, "Its not how you play the game... Its how the game plays you."

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