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Last Call for Blackford Oakes is a 2005 Blackford Oakes novel by William F. Buckley, Jr. It is the final of the 11 novels in the Blackford Oakes series. Plot. CIA agent Blackford Oakes confronts Kim Philby, a British double agent who defected to the Soviet Union, in 1987. References
17 de jul. de 2005 · By William F. Buckley Jr. July 17, 2005. Their 1986 meeting had had to do with a plot to assassinate Gorbachev. A group of young Russians, weary and demoralized by the brutal Soviet war against...
17 de jul. de 2005 · "Last Call for Blackford Oakes" is a consistently engaging piece of espionage cloak-and-daggitude that roams ruefully across the near-terminal days of the cold war in early 1988, and it...
Against the backdrop of sinister Cold War intrigue, in this, his eleventh outing, Oakes crosses paths-and swords-with Kim Philby, perhaps the highest-ranking in the parade of defectors to the...
7 de nov. de 2016 · Head of Zeus, Nov 7, 2016 - Fiction - 368 pages. Debonair superspy Blackford Oakes takes on one last mission in the rollicking conclusion to a beloved espionage series by William F. Buckley....
23 de ago. de 2016 · Blackford “Blackie” Oakes is the greatest spy in American history, but he’s no longer allowed behind enemy lines. As the former director of covert operations for the CIA, he knows too much to risk falling into enemy hands.
11 de mar. de 2018 · Oakes spends thirty-six years in the CIA, rising to Director of Operations in Last Call for Blackford Oakes, which takes place during Reagan’s final year in office. In novels where the good guys are the Americans, it makes sense that Oakes is “ distinctively American” (original emphasis here and elsewhere).
