High Jinx

High Jinx

"High Jinx" is a 1986 Blackford Oakes novel by William F. Buckley, Jr.. It is the seventh of 11 novels in the series.

Plot

CIA agent Blackford Oakes is sent inside the Soviet Union to monitor an internal power struggle within the Kremlin in 1954.


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