Boysie Oakes is fictional

secret agent Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...

created by the British spy novelist John Gardner in 1964 at the height of a period of fictional spy mania.

Character Biography

Oakes is mistakenly recruited into a British spy agency despite being a coward who wants to be left alone. He features in eight novels over an 11 year period and eventually becomes the head of the agency.

Film

The first novel in the series, '' The Liquidator'', was made into a feature film of the same name in 1965, starring Rod Taylor as Boysie Oakes.

Boysie Oakes novels

*'' The Liquidator'' (1964) *'' Understrike'' (1965) *''Amber Nine'' (1966) *''Madrigal'' (1967) *''Founder Member'' (1969) *''Traitor's Exit'' (1970) *''The Airline Pirates'' (1970) - published in the U.S. as ''Air Apparent'' *''A Killer for a Song'' (1975) Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in ''Hideaway'' (1968): ''A Handful of Rice'', and ''Corkscrew''.
Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in ''The Assassination File'' (1974): ''Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device'', ''Sunset At Paleokastritsa''.

External links

* {{imdb title, id=0059390, title=The Liquidator Oakes, Boysie Series of books