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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. Juli 2005 · 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 Afghanistan, had planned to...
17. Juli 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...
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. März 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).
1. Mai 2005 · LAST CALL FOR BLACKFORD OAKES. by William F. Buckley Jr. ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2005. A muted ending to a less-than-thrilling spy’s career. bookshelf. shop now. In his glasnost-era curtain call, Blackford Oakes comes off not so much world-weary as simply weary.
1. Mai 2006 · More than 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 ...
