Marco Polo, if You Can
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Marco Polo, if You Can is a 1982 Blackford Oakes
novel by William F. Buckley, Jr.
. It is the fourth of 12 novels in the series.
agent Blackford Oakes is shot down in a U-2
spy plane over the Soviet Union
in 1958.
Blackford Oakes
Blackford "Blackie" or "Black" Oakes is a fictional character, a Central Intelligence Agency officer and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley, Jr.-Early life:...
novel by William F. Buckley, Jr.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...
. It is the fourth of 12 novels in the series.
Plot
CIACentral Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
agent Blackford Oakes is shot down in a U-2
Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, very high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency . It provides day and night, very high-altitude , all-weather intelligence gathering...
spy plane over the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in 1958.