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A series of Cold War spy novels by William F. Buckley centered around the CIA agent Blackford Oakes. While there is some moral ambiguity, the author had a conscious intention to assume the Soviets were the bad guys and the books reflect that.

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* [[Born in the Wrong Century]]: Count Wintergrin in the novel Stained Glass
* [[CIA]]
* [[Commie Land]]: the whole premise of the series.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Clemanta Tod who is dead as far as her brother Henri knows
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: A letter-to-the-editor from a friend of Buckley's accused him of being sloppy about Central European culture in a couple of novels.)
* [[Black and Grey Morality]] (good guys are grey but more or less ok. Communists are Black though sometimes have likable enough traits to make them dark grey .)
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Intellectually-Supported Tyranny]]: Sir Alastir Fleetwood, a scientist that uses a supertelescope he invented to read American diplomatic messages in Hi Jinx, and then gives them to the Russians.
* [[Insufferable Genius]](Fleetwood)
* [[La Résistance]]: The title character of the novel The Story of Henri Tod is leader of an underground group in East Berlin.
* [[The Spymaster]]: Rufus.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: Count Wintergrin
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Bolgin, the Russian Chief of Station in London in the novel High Jinx.

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[[Category:Spy Literature]]
[[Category:Blackford Oakes Series]]