Readers first met Five Lowrey in The Thirteen, a story of life, love, secret society intrigue and death on Ohio University's campus in the Fifties. Sphinxes follows Five from his graduation into the world of spies. Without a plan for the future, he enlists in the Army's Counterintelligence Corps to escape the draft. Five is well prepared for basic training by his fraternity's Hell Week ordeal. After basic training, Five learns the counter-espionage...