Blackford Oakes
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Blackford "Blackie" or "Black" Oakes is a fictional character, a CIA agent and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Oakes was born in 1926. He served in World War II as a pilot and graduated from Yale University. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1951.
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- Saving the Queen (1976) – Set in 1952. Oakes' first mission. He goes to England looking for a British double agent.
- Stained Glass (1979) – Oakes is sent to keep tabs on a German politician who is trying to unify East and West Berlin 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 U2 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 protege gaining in power in Moscow.
- Mongoose R.I.P. (1987) – Set in 1963. Oakes is in Cuba working to overthrow Castro.
- 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.
