List of Blackford Oakes novels

The following is a list of works featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes, written by William F. Buckley, Jr.^[1]

Novels

• Saving the Queen (1976) – Set in 1952. Oakes' first mission. He goes to England looking for a British double agent.
• Stained Glass (1979) – Set in autumn 1952 following his first mission through November 1953. Oakes is sent to keep tabs on a German politician who is trying to unify East and West Germany against the wishes of both American and Soviet intelligence agencies.
• Who's on First (1980) – Set in 1956 during the space race and uprising in Hungary.
• Marco Polo, if You Can (1982) – Set in 1958. Oakes is captured while flying a Lockheed U-2 aircraft over Soviet airspace.
• The Story of Henri Tod (1984) – Set in 1961. Oakes is in Germany during the Berlin Wall crisis.
• See You Later, Alligator (1985) – Set in Cuba in the early 1960s, Oakes meets Che Guevara and tries to ease tensions between Cuba and America after the Bay of Pigs incident.
• High Jinx (1986) – Set in 1954. Oakes works behind the scenes to avoid an internal Soviet power struggle that could lead to a Stalin protégé gaining in power in Moscow.
• Mongoose R.I.P. (1987) – Set in 1963. Oakes is in Cuba working to overthrow Castro after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Tucker's Last Stand (1990) – Set in 1964. Oakes is in Vietnam to cut off Viet Cong supply lines.
• 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

• The Blackford Oakes Reader (1999) – A book in which William F. Buckley explains the character and the novels.

References