Cumberland House Titles - Blackford Oakes

High Jinx - A Blackford Oakes Mystery William F. Buckley Jr. The year is 1954, Joseph Stalin is dead, and Kremlin insiders are plotting about who will succeed him. In a distant part of the Soviet Empire, U.S. and British commandoes take advantage of the chaos to overthrow the Soviet-controlled government of Albania. The effort is doomed from the outset — jinxed by a traitor. > MORE	Marco Polo, If You Can - A Blackford Oakes Mystery William F. Buckley Jr. When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the Free World's defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhower's National Security Council, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask the imposter. > MORE	Mongoose, R.I.P. - A Blackford Oakes Mystery William F. Buckley Jr. The setting is 1963 in the middle of the Cold War. Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy plot against one another. Castro seeks revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis, and Kennedy has set in motion a plot that could prove his own undoing. Blackford Oakes is caught in the middle, and the outcome is uncertain until the last page. > MORE
Saving the Queen - A Blackford Oakes Mystery William F. Buckley Jr. America's top financial secret agent, Blackford Oakes, performs his first heroic effort in Saving the Queen in which William F. Buckley Jr. coaxes readers back to the earliest days of the Cold War. The year is 1951. Harry Truman is president, and the beautiful, young Queen Caroline has just settled onto the throne of England. > MORE	See You Later Alligator - A Blackford Oakes Mystery William F. Buckley Jr. Set in Havana in 1961, Blackford Oakes is in the middle of a conspiracy with the Che Guevara to bring about an era of détente in East-West relations. When Oakes is betrayed in a clever double-cross, he is trapped in Cuba and the stage is set for a dandy adventure. > MORE	Stained Glass - A Blackford Oakes Mystery William F. Buckley Jr. With the Cold War raging, Blackford Oakes takes a sabbatical from his work as a CIA superspy in order to help restore the war-damaged windows in a fabled German chapel. He finds no peace or sanctuary there. Instead, he ends up in the arms of a beautiful KGB agent — and on the horns of a dilemma. > MORE
The Story of Henri Tod - A Blackford Oakes Novel William F. Buckley Jr. The story takes place in the summer of 1961 just as the Berlin Wall is about to slam shut the last escape route out of Eastern Europe. President John F. Kennedy needs to know what the Soviets are up to, and Blackford Oakes is sent to Germany to get the answers. > MORE	Tucker's Last Stand - A Blackford Oakes Novel William F. Buckley Jr. Set during the 1965 presidential election, Tucker's Last Stand is filled with plots and counterplots regarding the CIA's attempts to halt the material via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Working out of Saigon with Tucker Montana, Blackford Oakes implements a brilliant plan for breaking the North's supply route. > MORE	A Very Private Plot - A Blackford Oakes Novel William F. Buckley Jr. An ambitious U.S. senator wants to weaken the power of the CIA, perhaps to the point of elimination. To accomplish this goal, he tries to enlist Blackford Oakes. The senator wants to know what President Reagan did at the time when informed of a plot by Soviet veterans of the war against Afghanistan to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev. > MORE
Who's On First - A Blackford Oakes Novel William F. Buckley Jr. In 1956, the United States is locked in a do-or-die space race with the Russians. Who will get to outer space first? Once again Blackford Oakes is called upon. This time he kidnaps two Russian missile scientists who can help put the Americans out in front for good. But he must dodge a murderous entourage of KGB agents and Hungarian freedom fighters. > MORE

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