The Story of Henri Tod: A Blackford Oakes Novel

William F. Buckley Jr.
President John F. Kennedy has been in office less than a year, and the Berlin Wall is about to slam shut the last escape route out of Communist Eastern Europe. Uncertain about the Soviets' intentions, Kennedy sends Blackford Oakes into the chaos of East Berlin to plumb the depths of the crisis. Oakes's contact is Henri Tod, leader of a group of German dissidents who has a price on his head and an ingenious plan that might just save the West from Eastern Bloc domination. When Tod mysteriously vanishes, Oakes locks horns with the ultimate opponent, Easy Germany's scrupulous party boss Walter Ulbricht, in a story created by William F. Buckley Jr., one of the foremost political thinkers and master storytellers of our time. Who will win this cloak-and-dagger chess game?
When first published, The Story of Henri Tod was a Literary Guild Dual Main Selection.
| WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. was the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, writer of a syndicated newspaper column, founder of National Review, former longtime host of Public Television's "Firing Line," and a much-sought-after lecturer. The last volume in the Blackford Oakes series, Last Call for Blackford Oakes, was published in the spring of 2005. |
$9.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-478-5 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-478-0 (Paperback)
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