HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Saving the Queen
OR:
Saving the Queen on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

''Saving the Queen'' is a 1976 American spy thriller novel by William F. Buckley, Jr., the first of eleven novels in the Blackford Oakes series.


Plot

This novel, set in 1952, reveals Oakes's childhood and educational background, his recruitment into the CIA, and the Agency's procedures for "handling" him. His first assignment sends him to Britain, where he must identify (and deal with) a high-level security leak close to the (fictional) British monarch, Queen Caroline. Also, Rufus, the enigmatic genius behind American intelligence operations, is introduced.


See also

*
List of Blackford Oakes novels Blackford "Blackie" or "Black" Oakes is a fictional character, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr. Early life Oakes was born in 1925. He served in World War II a ...
* William F. Buckley, Jr. bibliography


References

;Citations ;Bibliography * * 1976 American novels Blackford Oakes novels Doubleday (publisher) books Fiction set in 1952 {{ColdWar-novel-stub