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The Story of Henri Tod (Blackford Oakes)
The Story of Henri Tod - Blackford Oakes
Author: William F. Buckley Jr.
Berlin, pre-wall. Kruschev gives President Kennedy an ultimatum. Kennedy stalls, but directs the CIA to contact a secret group of German dissidents: the Bruderschaft. Blackford Oakes, senior agent, leads the charge. While Kennedy confers with DeGaulle, and Macmillan, Oakes penetrates the Bruderschaft.
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ISBN-13: 9780385152341
ISBN-10: 0385152345
Publication Date: 1/1984
Pages: 254
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Publisher: Doubleday Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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"The Story of Henri Tod" is an action novel largely devoid of action. Buckley brings back Blackford Oakes, the CIA superspy protagonist of many of his novels, to wax philosophic, ruminate about the excesses of Communism, and muddle his way through moral dilemmas, but do very little in the way of suspenseful, high drama, cloak 'n dagger spysmithing.

A saving grace of the novel is its setting in 1961 Berlin with the action (what there was of it) occurring amidst the historically significant period surrounding the construction of the Berlin Wall. This makes the novel skirt the boundaries of historical fiction, but Khrushchev, JFK, Adenour, and the supporting cast of Cold Warriors are bit players at best.


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