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Saving The Queen
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1976
Blackford Oakes is recruited by the CIA and is sent to England to work his way into upper society to gleam whatever is available. Soon he becomes involved in finding who is leaking vital secrets about the hydrogen bomb to the Soviets. As he gets close to the Queen of England, he learns that the leak is connected to her.
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Stained Glass
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1979
A rising leader in a new German movement, angered over the division of the two Germanys and still furious about the Berlin blockade, is worrying the Western powers. Blackford Oakes is dispatched to Bonn to get close to the man to find out if he is another Fuhrer-in-waiting or an agent for the Communists.
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High Jinx
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1986
The year is 1954 and Blackford Oakes is in Germany when it becomes clear that the Soviets have a mole somewhere in the upper echelons of MI6. Using the inroads he had already made in British society, Oakes is ordered to again renew his acquaintances to root out the spy.
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Who's On First
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1980
Sent to Paris in 1956 to engineer the kidnapping of a major Russian space scientist as the Soviet Union works feverously to put a satellite into orbit, Blackford Oakes is put at odds with agents from the KGB as well as Hungarian freedom fighters as he tracks down the intended victim, taking him to the frozen wastes of Siberia.
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Marco Polo, If You Can
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1982
Blackford Oakes is 'allowed' to resign from the CIA for not following orders in the previous mission. Three years pass. When comments made during a classified meetings of the National Security Council are repeated by Khrushchev during a summit meeting, Oakes is called back to help in a scheme that will mean getting shot down in a U2 over Moscow.
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The Story Of Henri Tod
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1984
The time is early in 1961 and the location is Berlin. All indications are that the Soviets are up to something big but the facts are sketchy at best. The CIA is instructed to find out what the plot is and that means that Blackford Oakes must head to Germany. His contact, Henri Tod, is missing and Oakes must find him.
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See You Later, Alligator
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1985
The Alligator refers to an Operation ordered by President Kennedy in 1961 to ease the tensions with Cuba through a rapprochement. The terms were to be presented to Castro through his colleague Che Guevara by Oakes. A Soviet double-cross interferes, leaving Blackford Oakes trapped alone in Havana.
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Mongoose R.I.P.
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1987
Angered at the trouble that Cuba continues to cause the Administration, the CIA tries a major effort to remove Castro by assassination in 1963. The agent chosen for the job due to his familiarity with the region is Blackford Oakes but Oakes soon learns that Castro has a plot of his own with millions of lives at stake.
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Tucker's Last Stand
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1990
The date is 1964. LBJ and Goldwater are running neck and neck towards the next election. Blackford Oakes is dispatched to the new hot zone of Vietnam to work closely with an American major named Tucker. Oakes soon learns that Tucker's objectives and his allegiances seem quite different from the government's.
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A Very Private Plot
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 1994
Two stories in one, this book discusses the attempt in 1995 by a young Senator to break open the truth of illicit activity by the CIA. To do so he needs to get retired agent Blackford Oakes to reveal one of Oakes's last missions. This recollection comprises the second story and tells how the Reagan administration handled the news in 1985 of an assassination plot against Premier Gorbachev.
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Last Call For Blackford Oakes
Written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright: 2005
Retired but still working for the CIA in an outside capacity, Blackford Oakes journeys to the ailing Soviet Union to help put down an assassination plot against Gorbachev. There he goes up against an old adversary, the British traitor Kim Philby.
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