A Very Private Plot: A Blackford Oakes Novel

by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Series: Blackford Oakes (10)

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It is 1995. An energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity ten years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activities for the CIA. How far will the frustrated senator go to compel cooperation from Blackford Oakes?… (more)

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Mr Buckley gives the history of the cold war a personalized view. i believe I've now read all his books & wish there were more of Blackford Oakes. Also that is not to be. (

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It is 1995. An energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants from Oakes an account of his covert activity ten years earlier, when Oakes served as chief of covert activities for the CIA. How far will the frustrated senator go to compel cooperation from Blackford Oakes?

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