Master of espionage fiction and National Book Award winner William F.
Buckley Jr. brings us another in his best-selling series starring the
intrepid CIA agent Blackford Oakes.
When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the free world's
defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhower's National Security
Counsel, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask
the imposter. Then, Oakes turns the tables on the Communists by piloting
a U-2 spy plane on a Gary Powers-style one-way mission behind the Iron
Curtain. Sentenced to death and trapped in the depths of the Lubyanka
prison, Oakes may have turned his last trick. Or has he?