Last Call for Blackford Oakes
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Last Call for Blackford Oakes is a 2005 Blackford Oakes
novel by William F. Buckley, Jr.
. It is the final of the 11 novels in the series.
agent Blackford Oakes confronts Kim Philby
, a spy for the Soviet Union
, in 1987.
Blackford Oakes
Blackford "Blackie" or "Black" Oakes is a fictional character, a Central Intelligence Agency officer and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr.-Early life:...
novel by William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...
. It is the final of the 11 novels in the series.
Plot
CIACentral Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
agent Blackford Oakes confronts Kim Philby
Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for and later defected to the Soviet Union...
, a spy for the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
, in 1987.