John Gardner

Understrike is a novel by John Gardner. It is the second novel in his Boysie Oakes series. When a routine mission to the United States goes haywire, Boysie Oakes is faced with the weighty responsibility of being British Special Security's observer at the important test-firing of a new missile. Unwillingly, and almost …

The Liquidator was the first novel written by John Gardner and the first novel in his Boysie Oakes series. After publishing his autobiographical account of alcoholism Spin the Bottle, Gardner decided to write a novel about governments killing people. Sending the first four chapters to his literary agent, Gardner's …