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Tucker's Last Stand: A Blackford Oakes Mystery (Blackford Oakes Novel)
Tucker's Last Stand A Blackford Oakes Mystery - Blackford Oakes Novel Author:William F. Buckley, Cumberland House The year is 1964. Faced with a tough presidential campaign and a deteriorating situation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson dispatches superagent Blackford Oakes on a mission to Southeast Asia. With him goes Tucker Montana, a character as colorful as his background is shady. They have two goals: Tucker to plot interdiction on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Oak... more »es to oversee a secret operation in the Tonkin Gulf--an operation that will give Johnson the excuse he needs for a greater U.S. military role in Vietnam. "Tense, chilling, unflaggingly lively...a romp and something more." (The Wall Street Journal)« less