Blackford Oakes
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Blackford "Blackie" Oakes is a fictional CIA agent and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Oakes was born in 1926. He served in World War II as a pilot and graduated from Yale. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951.
Bibliography
- Saving The Queen (1976) – Set in 1952. Oakes' first mission. He goes to England looking for a British double agent.
- Stained Glass (1979) – Oakes is sent to keep tabs on a German trying to rebuild the Third Reich.
- Who's on First (1980) – Set in 1956 during the space race and uprising in Hungary.
- Marco Polo, If You Can (1982) – Set in 1958. Oakes is captured while on an undercover mission in East Germany.
- The Story of Henri Tod (1984) – Set in 1961. Oakes is in Germany during the Berlin Wall crisis.
- See You Later, Alligator (1985) – Set in Cuba in the early 1960s.
- High Jinx (1986) – Set in 1954. Oakes is investigating how the Soviets knew about a mission in Albania.
- Mongoose R.I.P. (1987) – Set in 1963. Oakes is in Cuba working to overthrow Castro.
- Tucker's Last Stand (1990) – Set in 1964. Oakes is in Vietnam to cut off Viet Cong supply lines.
- A Very Private Plot (1994) – Oakes in 1995 is called to testify about operations he conducted in the 1980s.
- Last Call for Blackford Oakes (2005) – Oakes confronts his longtime nemesis, Kim Philby.