Stained Glass (A Blackford Oakes Mystery, #2)
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The New York Times–bestselling and National Book Award–winning mystery that’s “delightful reading for the spy thriller fan” (UPI.com).
When the Wehrmacht took Warsaw, Alex Wintergrin led the charge. But as soon as Hitler’s army occupied the Polish capital, the charismatic young count disappeared, and he was assumed to be dead. But that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Wintergrin had ditched his uniform and turned himself in to Polish security forces, with whom he shared every scrap of Hitler’s plans for the invasion. He then waited out the war in Norway, fighting the Germans with the resistance. Now the fighting may be over, but for Wintergrin, a new battle has just begun.
When he starts inciting East Germans to throw off the yoke of Soviet oppression, the USSR threatens to roll its tanks across Europe. In order to keep another war from breaking out, the CIA must send in the charming devil Blackford Oakes to talk sense into Wintergrin—and if necessary, kill him.
Stained Glass is the 2nd book in the Blackford Oakes Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
When the Wehrmacht took Warsaw, Alex Wintergrin led the charge. But as soon as Hitler’s army occupied the Polish capital, the charismatic young count disappeared, and he was assumed to be dead. But that couldn’t have been further from the truth. Wintergrin had ditched his uniform and turned himself in to Polish security forces, with whom he shared every scrap of Hitler’s plans for the invasion. He then waited out the war in Norway, fighting the Germans with the resistance. Now the fighting may be over, but for Wintergrin, a new battle has just begun.
When he starts inciting East Germans to throw off the yoke of Soviet oppression, the USSR threatens to roll its tanks across Europe. In order to keep another war from breaking out, the CIA must send in the charming devil Blackford Oakes to talk sense into Wintergrin—and if necessary, kill him.
Stained Glass is the 2nd book in the Blackford Oakes Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Book details
- Author
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 256
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers › Espionage
- Topics
- espionage · Cold War · CIA agent · spy fiction · political thriller · KGB · Germany · World War II resistance
- ISBN-13
- 9781630269067
About the author
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. authored more than fifty books spanning politics, sailing, and fiction, including his spy novels Stained Glass and Saving the Queen.
Buckley won the National Book Award for Stained Glass. He founded National Review in 1955 and hosted the television program Firing Line from 1966 to 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist.
When not writing, Buckley chaired the Yale Daily News during his studies at Yale University, where he later graduated with honors. His fiction centered on CIA agent Blackford Oakes.
Buckley was born in New York City on November 24, 1925, and died on February 27, 2008, in Stamford, Connecticut.