Tucker's Last Stand: A Blackford Oakes Novel
William F. Buckley Jr.
Connoisseurs of the cloak-and-dagger tradition have come to enjoy the adventures of Blackford Oakes, whose career as a CIA agent has placed him at the center of the East/West conflict since the late 1940s. Tucker's Last Stand has more than lived up to the high level expectations for the series.
The year is 1964. Lyndon Baines Johnson and Barry Goldwater are vying for the presidency, and Blackford Oakes has been sent to South Vietnam to halt its infiltration by men and material coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Working out of Saigon with Tucker Montana, a shadowy Texan who designs a brilliant system for breaking the North's supply route, Blackford Oakes is caught up in the ambiguity and confusion generated as America's involvement in the conflict escalates. As Tucker's murky past, his torris romance with the seductive Lao Dai, and the growing menace of global war comes into focus, Oakes — and Tucker — find their loyalty called into question, and they are forced to make a decisive move that will have consequences neither man can foresee.
 | 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. |
$10.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-88895-273-3 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-88895-273-5 (Paperback)
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