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Marco Polo, if you can

by William F. Buckley

Cover of Marco Polo, if you can

This novel continues the Cold War espionage series featuring the operator Blackford Oakes. In this installment, 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.

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