Mongoose RIP - Blackford Oakes, Bk 8 Author:William F. Buckley, Jr. The year is 1963. Fidel Castro seeks revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis while President Kennedy and his brother Robert have their own plan for ending the menance of the Caribbean dictator. It's called Operation Mongoose. — Blackford Oakes, the CIA's urbane ace agent, becomes point man in the plot. Then Oakes learns ther... more »e is a counterplan, one that scripts Oakes out of the play!« less