From the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning 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 Alstonāhis boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt's top advisorsāprovides 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 Timesābestselling author Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prizeāwinning series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to dramatic life.
"Remarkably shrewd and often prescient." ā The New York Times
"Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human." ā 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." āGeorge Bernard Shaw
"The completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done." āH. G. Wells