Boysie Oakes
| Boysie Oaks | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Liquidator |
| Last appearance | A Killer for a Song |
| Created by | John Gardner |
| Portrayed by | Rod Taylor |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Secret Agent |
| Nationality | British |
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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.
