High Jinx by William F. Buckley, Jr. (1986)

High Jinx
A Blackford Oakes Novel
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright: 1986
Book Club Edition

In his scintillating series of bestselling espionage novels, Bill Buckley has established a fresh American hero: Blackford Oakes. Now that singular, sophisticated superspy returns in High Jinx, a megavolt thriller that takes Blackford back in time to one of the critical turning points in the cold war.

The year is 1954. Stalin has died in Moscow and a deadly earnest power nears its conclusion. Meanwhile, British and American commandos, their mission to liberate a Soviet satellite country, have met a disastrous end. Jinxed. The communications system between English and American intelligence has been penetrated. Jinxed. There is a Spook in their midst. High jinx. And higher still when the risk becomes one Blacky alone must take.

Now it's up to the team with the track record. Rufus, the veteran counterintelligence strategist. Anthony Trust, CIA station chief in London. And, of course, Blackford Oakes. Their job: plug the leak. And find the traitor. Fast.

The hunt takes them from a covert camp for killers to Buckingham Palace, from a KGB trysting nest in Stockholm to the tightly closed doors of the Kremlin. And along the way, high-profile performers -- President Eisenhower, the brothers Dulles, Queen Caroline, Khrushchev, and Beria -- set the stage in an electrifying play for critical leverage.

It's tough going in high and low places . . . all delivered with the Buckley brand of wit and panache, romance and suspense that Blackford Oakes fans have come to expect.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover shows shelf wear, scuffing and light discoloration. Pages and page edges may be tanning. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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