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Jan 1, 2001 · Master of espionage fiction and National Book Award winner William F. Buckley Jr. brings us another in his best-selling series starring the intrepid CIA agent Blackford Oakes.
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Marco Polo, If You Can (1981) (The fourth book in the Blackford Oakes series) A novel by William F Buckley Jr
Aug 25, 2015 · A CIA agent is on trial in the USSR in this New York Times bestseller that “mixes politics, humor, suspense, and ingenious espionage capers” (Publishers Weekly). The prisoner in the dock is accused of unspeakable crimes against the Soviet Union—charges Blackford Oakes is proud to be guilty of.
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Marco Polo, if you can by Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. Publication date 1982 Topics Oakes, Blackford (Fictitious character), Intelligence service
His mission is to crash the plane, get captured, and endure the trial. So far, everything’s going according to plan. Now he just has to get out of the Soviet Union alive. Marco Polo, If You...
Dec 14, 2023 · by William F. Buckley. This novel continues the Cold War espionage series featuring the operator Blackford Oakes. In this installment, Oakes has just been cashiered from the Agency, when his boss decides he is the only man for an exceptionally dirty piece of work.
In this volume of Buckley's Blackford Oakes spy novels, Oakes is called upon to plug a security leak in President Eisenhower's National Security Council. Oakes goes on a mission behind the Iron Curtain to counter the damage, is captured and sentenced to death as a spy, and turns the tables on the KGB.
