Last Call for Blackford Oakes
A Blackford Oakes Mystery
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John Lescault
Over twenty years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. launched the dashing character of Blackford Oakes like a missile over the literary landscape. This newly minted CIA agent—brainy, bold, and complex—began his career by saving the queen of England and quickly took his place in the pantheon of master spies drawn up by Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré.
Against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue, in this his eleventh outing, Oakes crosses swords with Kim Philby, perhaps the highest-ranking in the parade of defectors to the Soviet Union.
Oakes is now himself a master spy, this time working outside the ambit of the director and around agency rules. His romance with an able and worldly Soviet doctor is consolation for the death of his beloved Sally. But after his return to Washington, he receives dismaying news. It is inevitable that the great Soviet spy and the renowned American agent will meet again—this time with deadly consequences.
©2005 William F. Buckley Jr. (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Reviews
“[An] engaging piece of espionage cloak-and-daggitude that roams ruefully across the near-terminal days of the Cold War.”
(New York Times Book Review)“As always, Buckley imparts erudite sidebars about American history, literature, and his famous acquaintances as he spins a lively, entertaining tale.”
(Publishers Weekly)
