William F. Buckley Jr.

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1966
  • Latest Book:
    July 2010
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Full Series List in Order

A Blackford Oakes Mystery

1 - Stained Glass (1976)
2 - Saving the Queen (Jan-1976)
3 - Who's on First (Feb-1980)
4 - Marco Polo, If You Can (1982)
5 - The Story of Henri Tod (Jan-1984)
6 - See You Later, Alligator (Feb-1986)
7 - High Jinx (Mar-1986)
8 - Mongoose, R.I.P. (Nov-1987)
9 - Tucker's Last Stand (1990)
10 - A Very Private Plot (Jan-1994)
11 - Brothers No More (Aug-1995)
12 - Last Call for Blackford Oakes (May-2005)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Unmaking of a May

    John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. Â"As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop conceded, Â"Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his rivals.â€...

  • Saving the Queen

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 2

    America's vital military secrets are slipping through the Queen's private chambers. The CIA needs an agent suave, audacious and dashing enough to infiltrate Windsor Palace, slip into the queenly quarters, and plug the leak. They need Blackford "Black...

  • Stained Glass

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 1

    A MATTER OF SOME DELICACY... Such as finding the perfect blue to restore the windows of a thirteenth century German chapel at the Palace of St. Anselm. Blackford Oakes, fresh from his daring exploits at Windsor Castle, is in charge. But Alex Winte...

  • Who's on First

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 3

    In this New York Times bestseller, a CIA agent is trapped in Budapest between KGB spies and Hungarian freedom fighters while trying to stop Sputnik. The students of Budapest rise up against the Soviets with the assurance that the West will help them ...

  • Marco Polo, If You Can

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 4

    BLACKFORD OAKES IS BACK AND KHRUSHCHEV’S GOT HIM Blacky's on death row in Lubyanka prison. How did the intrepid Cold Warrior land in such a scrape? In a U-2 spy plane. OPERATION TANGO: Blackford was two-timing his steady with a Vassar vamp. Khr...

  • The Story of Henri Tod

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 5

    It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate. Brilliant, charismatic, and with a tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-Communist organizatio...

  • The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey

    A poor boy in a rich boy's school, Wilfred Malachey decides to help himself and his friends by becoming a modern day Robin Hood, a career that brings in a moderate income until he discovers a genie in the school computer....

  • See You Later, Alligator

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 6

    In the New York Timesâ€"bestselling spy series, Agent Oakes is in Cuba for secret negotiations with Che Guevara -- on a mission that soon turns deadly. From his 1st day in office, President Kennedy has been bedeviled by Cuba. The CIA forced the Bay o...

  • High Jinx

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 7

    The year is 1954, and Joseph Stalin is dead. As the ruthless Laurenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots to succeed him, another drama is taking place in a distant part of the Soviet empire. United States and British commandoes have begun a mission to ove...



  • Mongoose, R.I.P.

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 8

    "Mongoose, R. I. P"., by William F. Buckley Jr. Mongoose, R. I. P. is set in 1963 in the middle of the cold war. Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy plot against one another. Castro seeks revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis, an...

  • Big Game Hunting in Central Africa

    One volume in the Peter Capstick Library series which reprinted the classic African big game hunting books, all of which have become very scarce and expensive. This is the story of William Buckley who went to Africa for gold and diamonds and ended u...

  • Tucker's Last Stand

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 9

    Dispatched by the United States government to Vietnam in the wake of the chaotic events of 1964, Blackford Oakes and a swashbuckling mercenary named Tucker stir up trouble along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and in the Gulf of Tonkin...

  • A Very Private Plot

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 10

    Dangerous Cold War secrets come to light in the age of glasnost in this “smooth and skillful” spy thriller from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In the bleakest hours of the Cold War, the CIA did terrible things. The a...

  • Brothers No More

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 11

    Bestselling author William F. Buckley, Jr., offers a terrific new novel -- in the gloriously gripping tradition of Howard Fast, Irwin Shaw, and Jeffery Archer -- of men and women caught between the force of history and the power of their ow...

  • The Redhunter

    From the celebrated conservative comes a rich and complex novel about one of the most conspicuous political figures in American history: Senator Joe McCarthy....

  • The Blackford Oakes Reader

    It all started when editor Sam Vaughan asked William F. Buckley, "Why don't you try a novel?" To which America's most renowned conservative replied, "Sam, why don't you play a trumpet concerto?" Vaughan didn't take up this musical challenge, but he d...

  • Spytime

    James Jesus Angleton was a legend in the time of spies. Founder of US counterintelligence at the end of World War II, ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America, his name is synonymous with skullduggery and intellectual subterfuge. William F....

  • Elvis in the Morning

    This is a novel about friendship, a novel that spans the decades that changed America forever.

    Orson is a young boy whose mother works at a U.S. Army base in Germany in the 1950s. There, he becomes a fan of a G.I. stationed at the base, one E...

  • Getting It Right

    Getting It Right is the story of Kara and Alex, half-sisters who have never met―one the product of an abusive foster-care setting, the other of dysfunctional privilege. Haunted by crippling memories, Kara falls for the wrong men, tries to help her ...



  • Nuremberg: The Reckoning

    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. Leading the reader into the Palace is Sebastian, a young German-American whose fate is to be intimately invol...

  • The National Review Treasury of Classic Children's Literature, Volume Two

    Last season we published The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature -- a lavishly illustrated book that featured forty-two delightful and wholesome children's stories from some of America’s best writers from a century past. We ...

  • Last Call for Blackford Oakes

    A Blackford Oakes Mystery - 12

    The brilliant CIA agent goes up against infamous Soviet spy Kim Philby in this “lively, entertaining” Cold War thriller (Publishers Weekly).  Blackford “Blackie” Oakes is the greatest spy in American history, but he’s no longer allowed...

  • The Rake

    A prototypical child of the sixties, Senator Reuben Castle coasted through his early life on a cloud of easy charisma, leaving behind more skeletons than Arlington: a highly questionable Vietnam record, an abandoned wife, and worse. Now, two decades ...

  • Atlantic High

  • A Hymnal

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William F. Buckley Jr. has published 25 books.

William F. Buckley Jr. does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Atlantic High, was published in July 2010.

The first book by William F. Buckley Jr., Unmaking of a May, was published in October 1966.

Yes. William F. Buckley Jr. has 1 series.
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