#audibleProductTitle #title { font-weight: 400; hyphens: auto; } High Jinx

Bill Buckley has created a handsome American hero, Blackford Oakes, who, by coincidence or not, happens to be an irreverent Yale- and CIA-trained superspy.

The year is 1954.

Stalin has died in Moscow, and a deadly earnest power play 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.