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In this mesmerizing tale of espionage set in 1961 Berlin, Blackford Oakes links up with Henri Tod, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's madness dedicated to preserving freedom in his homeland. When Tod learns of the plans for the Berlin Wall, Oakes knows he must stop Tod from taking action.
And, with the excessively noble Henri Tod at center-stage most of the way through, Blackford is barely a presence here at all (though clearly chagrined by Washington's lack of anti-Communist guts). Over-contrived, insufficiently charming, and blandly didactic: the weakest of the Oakes adventures—but short and fast enough to please the sizable following.
In this mesmerizing tale of espionage set in 1961 Berlin, Blackford Oakes links up with Henri Tod, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's madness dedicated to preserving freedom in his homeland. When Tod learns of the plans for the Berlin Wall, Oakes knows he must stop Tod from taking action.
Oakes's contact is Henri Tod, 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. ... The Story of Henri Tod. William F. Buckley, Jr. Cumberland House, 2005 - Fiction - 250 pages
1 de nov. de 2000 · 内容简介 · · · · · ·. 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 ...
1 de sept. de 1996 · He wrote 11 novels featuring CIA spook Blackford Oakes; The Story of Henri Tod is number 5 in the series. The failure of the East German police state to stem the flow of those escaping to the West and impending Berlin Wall crisis serve as a backdrop for Henri Tod, a German Jew who was smuggled into England during WW II to avoid conscription into the Wehrmacht (his background has been hidden ...
25 de ago. de 2015 · When Tod disappears, Oakes will risk everything to save him, even if it means stepping across the Iron Curtain. The Story of Henri Tod is the 5th book in the Blackford Oakes Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
