Marco Polo, If You Can (A Blackford Oakes Mystery, #4)
The prisoner in the dock is accused of unspeakable crimes against the Soviet Union—charges Blackford Oakes is proud to be guilty of. The agent has spent 9 years fighting the spread of Communism in Europe, and he intends to continue the battle. It shouldn’t be hard for the Russians to convict him of espionage—after all, Oakes was found on Soviet soil in a downed U-2 spy plane—and it will take a masterstroke for the agent to escape execution. The funny thing is, the Russians are playing right into his hands.
After 3 years on leave from the CIA, Oakes was brought back to take part in 1 of the most daring operations in intelligence history. His mission is to crash the plane, get captured, and endure the trial. So far, everything’s going according to plan. Now he just has to get out of the Soviet Union alive.
Marco Polo, If You Can is the 4th book in the Blackford Oakes Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Book details
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers
- Topics
- Cold War · CIA agent · espionage · political thriller · Soviet Union · spy planes · Cold War fiction · prisoner of war
- ISBN-13
- 9781888952117
About the author
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. founded National Review in 1955 and authored more than 50 books on history, politics, and sailing, as well as a celebrated series of spy novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes. His books include Saving the Queen.
Buckley was a National Book Award winner. He served as chairman of the Yale Daily News while attending Yale University and hosted the television program Firing Line from 1966 to 1999, while also writing a nationally syndicated newspaper column.
When not writing, Buckley remained a prominent conservative commentator and editor throughout his career. Much of his work across fiction and nonfiction reflected his long engagement with politics and American conservatism.
Buckley was born in New York City on November 24, 1925, and died on February 27, 2008, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut.