Boysie Oakes

Boysie Oakes is fictional secret agent 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 seven novels over a 15-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 The Assassination File (1974): A Handful of Rice, and Corkscrew.
Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in Hideaway (1968): Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device, Sunset At Paleokastritsa.

External links[]

• The Liquidator at IMDb