Tucker's Last Stand (A Blackford Oakes Mystery, #9)
The year is 1964.
Lyndon Baines Johnson and Barry Goldwater are vying for the presidency, and CIA master spy Blackford Oakes has been sent to South Vietnam to halt its infiltration by men and materiel coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Working out of Saigon with Tucker Montana, a shadowy Texan who designs a brilliant system for breaking the North's supply route, Blackford Oakes is caught up in the ambiguity and confusion generated as America's involvement in the conflict escalates. As Tucker's murky past, his torrid romance with the seductive Lao Dai, and the growing menace of global war come into focus, Oakes—and Tucker—find their loyalty called into question. Both men are forced to make a decisive move that will have consequences neither man can foresee.
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Book details
- Author
- William Buckley
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Political
Fiction › Thrillers › Espionage - Topics
- espionage thriller · Cold War · Vietnam War · CIA agent · Ho Chi Minh Trail · political thriller · 1960s America · loyalty and betrayal
- ISBN-13
- 9781888952735
About the author
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. founded the conservative journal National Review in 1955 and hosted the Emmy Award–winning television program Firing Line from 1966 to 1999. His books include The Fall of the Berlin Wall, God and Man at Yale and the Blackford Oakes spy novel series.
Buckley received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and was awarded thirty-five honorary degrees. He graduated with honors from Yale University.
Buckley served in the CIA in the early 1950s, helped found the Young Americans for Freedom in 1960, and began his nationally syndicated newspaper column "On the Right" in 1962.