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Blackford " Blackie "/" Black " Oakes is a fictional character, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr. Early life. Oakes was born in 1925. He served in World War II as a fighter pilot and graduated from Yale University. [1] .
Mar 11, 2018 · “Readers of a William Buckley spy novel already know CIA agent Blackford Oakes,” the Hinckley sisters write. “They know what to expect from the author’s wit and can look forward to another imaginary conversation between presidents, foreign-policy advisors, and other famous people.
Dec 24, 2017 · In “The Genesis of Blackford Oakes,” an amusing article detailing how the first spy novel came to be, Buckley says he committed “literary iconoclasm” by making the Americans—the good guys. The Cold War, Buckley explains, is a battle between Good and Evil, the East and West not morally equivalent.
Richard Clifford Blackwood (born 15 May 1972) [1] is a British actor, presenter, and rapper. Between 2015 and 2018, he played Vincent Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2020, he began portraying the role of Felix Westwood in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
Blackford Oakes is recruited by the CIA and is sent to England to work his way into upper society to gleam whatever is available. Soon he becomes involved in finding who is leaking vital secrets about the hydrogen bomb to the Soviets.
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Saving the Queen is a 1976 American spy thriller novel by William F. Buckley, Jr., the first of eleven novels in the Blackford Oakes series. [1]
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Richard Blackwood was born on 15 May 1972 in Clapham, Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for EastEnders (1985), Deus (2022) and Britannia High (2008).
