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Muir’s Gambit

The Spy Game Movie Origin Story

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Muir’s Gambit

By: Michael Frost Beckner
Narrated by: Todd Boyce
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"A real adrenaline blast... I loved it!"—ROBERT REDFORD

"There's nobody quite like Beckner. You'll swallow this book whole."—I.S. BERRY, Edgar Award winning Author of THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW

"First-class spy novels with a smart, gritty atmosphere."—CHARLES CUMMING, Internationally Best-selling Author of BOX 88 and KENNEDY 35

It's 48 hours before the events of the movie classic Spy Game and Nathan Muir is about to see his world implode...

"Pass the popcorn!" AMAZON EDITORS' PICK!—Vanessa Cronin, Sr. Editor

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.

“Muir’s Gambit is espionage at its finest—taut, brilliantly crafted, and unforgettable. Nathan Muir may be the greatest spy ever put to page."—BRUCE BORGOS, USA TODAY bestselling author of the Porter Beck Mysteries

"Moving, funny, thrilling. A wonderful book."—CHARLES BEAUMONT, former MI6 operative and bestselling author of A SPY ALONE

2023 GOLD MEDAL WINNER—BEST FIRST NOVEL—Independent Publishers IPPY Awards

2022 WINNER—SPY THRILLER OF THE YEAR—Best Thrillers Book Awards

2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST—Foreword INDIES Award

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... Challenges you in ways you haven't been challenged before." BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning director TONY SCOTT

"A chess game...laid out in the real world of espionage." BRAD PITT

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

©2022 Michael Frost Beckner (P)2026 Audible, Inc.
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