The year is 1961, the setting Havana. CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is sent there on a mission only to find himself in the eye of an international political hurricane. President Kennedy, who has selected Oakes to meet with the Che Guevara inside Castro's Cuba, has contrived a daring plan—dubbed Operation Alligator—that will hopefully bring about an era of detente in East-West relations.  The communists, however, have another agenda: a double-cross that has terrifying consequences. Soon Oakes is trapped in Cuba, and the heat is on. Warming the climate greatly is the sultry beauty Catalina. The weather forecast: betrayal, power politics, and sudden death.

See You Later Alligator

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

William F. Buckley

Thrillers & Suspense

Arrow Books, Ltd.

Set during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, this eighth Blackford Oakes novel places the urbane CIA agent at the heart of America's anti-Castro operations

Mongoose, R.I.P.

Hardback ,with AAUW stamp. Inscribed by the author.

A Hymnal: The Controversial Arts

G.P. Putnam's Son

Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century

Bobbs-Merrill

In the summer of 1961 just as the Berlin Wall is about to slam shut the last escape route out of Eastern Europe, President Kennedy needs to know what the Soviets are up to, and Blackford Oakes is sent to Germany to get the answers. When Oakes's contact, Henri Tod, turns up missing, Blackford locks horns with East Germany's unscrupulous communist boss.

The Story of Henri Todd (Signed)

FRANKLIN LIBRARY

In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into the public spotlight.

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ''Academic Freedom'' (Library Edition)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Tucker's Last Stand

Mystery

Blackstone Pub

An objective study of the record and purpose of the controversial Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

McCarthy and His Enemies; The Record and Its Meaning

L. Brent Bozell

History

CROWN PUB.

Marco Polo, if you can

William F. Buckley, Jr. editor of National Review, may be remembered by posterity as the novelist who created Blackford Oakes. In this installment, Buckley uses a celebrated incident of 20 years ago to create a fictional adventure with official history. Oakes has just been cashiered from the Agency, when his boss decides he is the only man for an exceptionally dirty piece of work. Oakes agrees to return, but in short order finds himself standing before a secret Soviet military tribunal which has as its subject his execution for spying.

Marco Polo, If You Can

Random House]

A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century

Crown Forum

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