Marco Polo, If You Can

by William F. Buckley Jr.

Book Overview

Master of espionage fiction and National Book Award winner William F. Buckley Jr. brings us another in his best-selling series starring the intrepid CIA agent Blackford Oakes. When a shadowy Russian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385152329
• ISBN13: 9780385152327
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Cold War Spy Tale

It's 1958 and a drunken Chairmen Khrushchev has just quoted verbatum from the top secret minutes of the National Security Council to President Eisenhower. Thus ensues an operation to find the KGB mole. The search takes our hero, CIA agent Blackford Oakes, to Germany, past the iron curtain into East Berlin. So, how does Blacky come to find his U-2 experiencing an unrecoverable flameout over the USSR? Will he leave Lubyanka prison alive? The suspense is wonderfully woven in this tale of suave, hansome and daring Blackford Oakes. I hated to put this one down. The ending is cleaver and unmistakably Buckley. This is a fun read.