Presidential Agent

Upton Sinclair

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781504026499
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning series, an American spy goes undercover in Nazi Germany in this historical thriller from the author of The Jungle .

An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is dedicated to his socialist ideals and to combatting the twin scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, a chance encounter in New York with Professor Charles Alston—his boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt's top advisors—provides Lanny with the opportunity to make a profound difference.

Appointed Presidential Agent 103, the international art dealer embarks on a secret assignment that takes him back into the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile attempt to avoid war. But Lanny's motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her.

Presidential Agent is the action-packed fifth installment of New York Times–bestselling author Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize–winning series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to dramatic life.

"Remarkably shrewd and often prescient." — The New York Times

"Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human." — Time

"When people ask me what has happened in my long lifetime, I do not refer them to the newspaper files and to the authorities, but to [Sinclair's] novels." —George Bernard Shaw

"The completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done." —H. G. Wells

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• Book One: Seats of the Mighty
• Book Two: Wrong Forever on the Throne
• Book Three: Most Disastrous Chances
• Book Four: In the Midst of Wolves
• Book Five: Extravagant and Erring Spirit
• Book Six: A Full Hot Horse
• Book Seven: The Things That Are Caesar’s
• Preview: Dragon Harvest
• About the Author
• Copyright Page