William F. Buckley, Jr. (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
Principal Series
The Blackford Oakes series, 1976-
Principal Series Characters
Blackford Oakes, a handsome young operative of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the 1950’s and the early 1960’s. He is well educated, sophisticated, and witty, as well as being a totally committed cold warrior. He is, in short, a fictionalized version of the author himself at around the age of thirty.
Sally Partridge, the bright, attractive young woman with whom Blackford Oakes has long had an intimate but tenuous relationship. (Buckley has said that he defers...
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