Title: A very private plot
Subtitle: a Blackford Oakes novel
Description: In 1995, a U.S. Senator attempting to disarm the CIA asks the former head of the Agency's covert operations, Blackford Oakes, for an account of his covert activities. One activity involved a 1985 plot by a group of young Soviet soldiers to assassinate Mikhail Gorbachev.
Subjects: Fiction, Blackford Oakes (Fictitious character), United States, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence service, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Oakes, blackford (fictitious character), fiction
Places: United States