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William F. Buckley Jr. Story of Henri Tod (Blackford Oakes in Berlin)
Doubleday Books 1984-01 0385152345 / 9780385152341 Hardcover Good Dust Jacket: Good
First US Edition after a privately printed limited edition. name of previous owner and city in pen otherwise unmarked pages, nice cover and spine. nice dust jacket with small edge creases and small stain on lower front edge President John F. Kennedy has been in office less than a year, and the Berlin Wall is about to slam shut the last escape route out of Communist Eastern Europe. Uncertain about the Soviets' intentions, Kennedy sends Blackford Oakes into the chaos of East Berlin to plumb the depths of the crisis. Oakes' contact in Henri Tod, a leader of a group of German dissidents who has a price on his head and an ingenious plan that might just save the West from Eastern Bloc domination. When Tod mysteriously vanishes, Oakes locks horns with the ultimate opponent, East German's unscrupulous party boss Walter Ulbricht, in a story created by William F. Buckley Jr., one of the foremost political thinkers and master storytellers of our time. Who will win this cloak-and-dagger chess game?
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2.95 USD
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