Nov 18, 2008

Saving the Queen | Characters

The hero of Saving the Queen (and its sequels) is Blackford Oakes, known familiarly as Blacky or Blackie. He is a perfect boy who grows up to be a "perfect" young man. First of all, he is amazingly handsome. To compare him to a movie star is totally inadequate; not only his mother, who may be expected to be biased, but Sally, his steady girl friend, as well as his more casual sexual partners, routinely describe him as a Greek god.

In addition, Blackford is amazingly intelligent, a magna cum laude graduate of Yale who has, of course, read Buckley's God and Man at Yale...