Boysie Oakes
| Boysie Oakes | |
|---|---|
| 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 a fictional secret agent created by the British spy novelist John Gardner in 1964 at the height of a period of spy fiction 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 eleven year period and eventually becomes the head of the agency.
Appearances
[edit]Literature
[edit]He appears in eleven 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, and A Killer for a Song (1975).
He also appears in the short stories A Handful of Rice and Corkscrew in Hideaway (1968) and in the short stories Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device and Sunset At Paleokastritsa in The Assassination File (1974).
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.