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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...
Philby, Kim, 1912-1988, Oakes, Blackford (Fictitious character), Americans, Intelligence officers, Cold War Publisher Orlando : Harcourt Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English
A Very Private Plot (1994) – Oakes in 1995 is called to testify about operations he conducted in the 1980s, especially one in particular involving a domestic Soviet plot to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev. Last Call for Blackford Oakes (2005) – Set in 1987, Oakes confronts the infamous Soviet defector, Kim Philby. Other
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).
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...
