Stained Glass, William F. Buckley, Jr.
Stained Glass, William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Stained Glass
A Blackford Oakes Mystery

Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.

Narrator: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/11/2008


Synopsis

A matter of some delicacy: finding the perfect blue to restore the windows of a thirteenth century German chapel at the Palace of St. Anselm. Blackford Oakes, fresh from his daring exploits at Windsor Castle, is in charge. But Alex Wintergrin, owner of the chapel, is far more than a charming aristocrat and congenial companion. A charismatic hero, he is rising to power, rousing his countrymen to reunite Germany. As the cold war turns hot, Oakes is thrown into the arms of a beautiful KGB agent and onto the horns of a dilemma. He must either pull the fatal switch on a friend, or find a way to change the rules.

About William F. Buckley, Jr.

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) was a public intellectual, conservative author, and political commentator. He founded National Review magazine, which had a major impact on the modern conservative movement in the United States, and wrote the popular newspaper column On the Right. Buckley also hosted almost 1,500 episodes of Firing Line and wrote more than 50 books on a variety of topics, including both nonfiction and a series of espionage thrillers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on February 02, 2020

William F. Buckley Jr. is hailed as one of the top conservative writers of the 20th century. He even wrote some of Reagan’s speeches. I've been wanting to read one of his novels for some time, and picked this up at an estate sale for $1 (First edition, too!). This is the first book I've read by him,......more

Goodreads review by Arthur on May 19, 2020

I'm not usually a reader of spy or suspense type works, so I came across this with low expectations. It's the only book in the series I've read. So I don't know offhand if I missed anything by not reading the preceding. For me it got interesting in the last quarter of the book, but the slow build up......more

Goodreads review by Adrienne on June 08, 2009

I’m old enough to remember a divided Germany and, very dimly, the Berlin Wall. But today’s world is rather different, so it is always interesting to read a book written during those decades of a divided Germany and a worldwide struggle between East and West. Stained Glass by William F. Buckley is on......more

Goodreads review by Kurt on February 21, 2016

Of the Oakes stories, I've found this to be one of the "heaviest" in terms of agonizing over the protagonist's dilemma. It is also one of the more deliberately-staged alternate realities or "what if" scenarios, in which a much more compelling movement for German reunification is inserted into the po......more

Goodreads review by John R. Goyer on January 02, 2023

I'm going to be generous and give it two stars. It started out pretty good and I thought the politics/philosophy was pretty good. It basically just kept getting worse. There was an entire tedious chapter on Erika's back story that sucked, and while Blackford was supposed to be under cover with an al......more