Saving the Queen
AmericansBlackford Oakes (Fictitious character)Cold WarFictionFiction in English
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This is the first of the Blackford Oakes, CIA agent, novels. The book describes his recruitment into the CIA and his first assignment in England to discover the identity of the mole responsible for passing US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
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AmericansBlackford Oakes (Fictitious character)Cold WarFictionFiction in EnglishIntelligence officers
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EnglandLondon (England)
About the author
William F. Buckley
24 November 1925 – 27 February 2008
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 style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words. George H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative movement, believed that Buckley was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century". "For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure." Buckley's primary change to pol…
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