List of Blackford Oakes novels

A list of works featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes, written by William F. Buckley, Jr..

Novels

*"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 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", A book in which William F. Buckley explains the character and the novels.