High Jinx (A Blackford Oakes Mystery, #7)
The year is 1954, and Joseph Stalin is dead. As the ruthless Laurenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots to succeed him, another drama is taking place in a distant part of the Soviet empire. United States and British commandoes have begun a mission to overthrow the Soviet-controlled government of Albania, but it is doomed to failure from the outset—jinxed by a traitor.
In the aftermath of the disaster, CIA super spy Blackford Oakes pursues his adversary from a covert camp for training murderers to Buckingham Palace, from a KGB hideout in Stockholm to the very doors of the Kremlin. The result is a satisfying tale that brings this episode in the conflict between the West and the Soviet Bloc to a summary conclusion.
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Book details
- Author
- William Bickley Jr.
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers
- Topics
- Cold War · espionage thriller · CIA agent · KGB · Soviet Union · Albania · political intrigue · 1950s
- ISBN-13
- 9781888952520
About the author
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. founded the conservative journal National Review in 1955 and hosted the Emmy Award–winning television program Firing Line from 1966 to 1999. His books include The Fall of the Berlin Wall, God and Man at Yale and the Blackford Oakes spy novel series.
Buckley received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and was awarded thirty-five honorary degrees. He graduated with honors from Yale University.
Buckley served in the CIA in the early 1950s, helped found the Young Americans for Freedom in 1960, and began his nationally syndicated newspaper column "On the Right" in 1962.