William F. Buckley Jr.

In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

The year is 1961, the setting Havana. CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes has been sent there on a mission, only to find himself in the eye of an international political hurricane....

Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, 1945, was the scene of a trial without precedent in history, a trial that continues to haunt the modern world....

Lyndon Johnson dispatches Oakes and a soldier of fortune named Tucker on secret missions to Southeast Asia....

When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the free world's defenses, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask the imposter....

It's 1956, and the cold war is hot. Hungary has just fallen, and Blackford Oakes is back from Budapest, puzzling over a betrayal and mourning a tragedy he couldn't prevent....

A reminiscence of 30 years of friendship with the man who brought the American conservative movement out of the political wilderness and into the White House....

The sixties explode, and Elvis becomes the icon of the nation, while Orson, a college demonstrator, drifts away from regular life....

As the Cold War turns hot, Oakes is thrown into the arms of a beautiful KGB agent and onto the horns of a dilemma....

President Truman is nearing the end of his term in office, and Great Britain has a new queen....

It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling....

The year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA....

The year is 1954. Stalin has died in Moscow, and a deadly earnest power play nears its conclusion. Meanwhile British and American commandos have met a disastrous end....