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Stained Glass is an American spy thriller novel by William F. Buckley, Jr., the second of eleven novels in the Blackford Oakes series. [1] . Its first paperback edition won a 1980 National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery (paperback). [2] [ Note 1] Plot. Oakes's second assignment sends him to West Germany.
Stained Glass is an American spy thriller novel by William F. Buckley, Jr., the second of eleven novels in the Blackford Oakes series. Its first paperback edition won a 1980 National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery (paperback).
15. Mai 2005 · Stained Glass. Paperback – May 15, 2005. by William F. Buckley Jr. (Author) 162. Book 2 of 11: The Blackford Oakes Mysteries. See all formats and editions. National Book Award Winner, 1980. An intricate plot involves the restoration of war-damaged windows in a famous German chapel. When Blackford Oakes takes a sabbatical from his work with ...
18. Sept. 2001 · As a young lad in England in the sixties, he and a group of his friends who were going to art school had apprenticed to the glass craftsmen at Canterbury Cathedral. There was a wealth of ancient glass that had managed to survive the centuries at Canterbury, much of it tucked out of harm’s way in the upper reaches of the cathedral.
16. Feb. 2015 · The House with the Stained-Glass Window. Żanna Słoniowska, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) 3.25. 594 ratings92 reviews. In 1989, Marianna, the beautiful star soprano at the Lviv opera, is shot dead in the street as she leads the Ukrainian citizens in their protest against Soviet power.
STAINED GLASS. by William F. Buckley Jr. ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 7, 1978. Blackford Oates, the Yalie CIA smoothie who was busy bedding and Saving the Queen in 1976, returns—in a slightly less giddy but still light, terribly bright piece of tongue-in-chic 1950s intrigue.
Stained Glass, which won the American Book Award for Best Mystery, is the best of his Blackford Oakes mysteries--which at the time he was writing them were considered to be on a par with, though the political opposite of, John LeCarre's spy novels.
