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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
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.
Mar 11, 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).
Witty and urbane, and featuring an unforgettable cast of characters both real and imagined, Last Call for Blackford Oakes is a delightful ending to one of the greatest espionage sagas in history.”
Nov 7, 2016 · Witty and urbane, and featuring an unforgettable cast of characters both real and imagined, Last Call for Blackford Oakes is a delightful ending to one of the greatest espionage sagas...
Jul 17, 2005 · Oakes, veteran CIA agent, was in secret and unshared touch with a Soviet defector he had long experienced as antagonist, but who was now a hidden ally.
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Oakes is now himself a master spy, working outside of the agency and around agency rules. His romance with an able and worldly Soviet doctor provides consolation for the death of his beloved...
