The Story of Henri Tod (A Blackford Oakes Mystery, #5)
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SKU 9781581824780
In the summer of 1961 just as the Berlin Wall is about to slam shut the last escape route out of Eastern Europe, President Kennedy needs to know what the Soviets are up to, and Blackford Oakes is sent to Germany to get the answers. When Oakes's contact, Henri Tod, turns up missing, Blackford locks horns with East Germany's unscrupulous communist boss.
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Book details
- Author
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 250
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Blackford Oakes Novel
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers › Espionage
- Topics
- Cold War · espionage · CIA agent · Berlin Wall · political thriller · spy fiction · Iron Curtain · 1960s
- ISBN-13
- 9781581824780
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.