Overview

As D-Day approaches, an American spy is unmasked by Himmler's Gestapo and must flee the Nazis, in this novel in the Pulitzer Prize-winning historical saga. In 1943, the once-unstoppable Nazi war machine is starting to falter. For a decade and a half, Lanny Budd's cover as a fine-art dealer and Fascist sympathizer has held firm, earning him the confidence of Hermann Göring and other top officials, including Adolf Hitler himself. With the Allies preparing to retake Europe, Lanny must make certain that the location of the invasion remains hidden from the Nazi high command. But his mission is compromised and his life endangered when Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's feared Gestapo chief, uncovers Lanny's true loyalties. Now FDR's most trusted spy must run for his life, escaping into the European countryside with Hitler's executioners on his trail. His survival will require great courage, endurance, and ingenuity, but Lanny Budd is determined to live long enough to witness what he has waited so many years to see: the final collapse of the Third Reich. One Clear Call is the thrilling ninth installment of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. An astonishing mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the author's singular talents as a storyteller.

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A great and well-balanced design...I think it the completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done. -- H. G. Wells praise for the series Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human. -- Time, praise for the series These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history...Sinclair's historical acumen and his calculations about powerful institutions--government, press, corporations, oil cartels and lobbyists--remain remarkably shrewd and often prescient. -- New York Times praise for the series 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 [Upton Sinclair's] novels. -- George Bernard Shaw praise for the series

A great and well-balanced design...I think it the completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done. -- H. G. Wells praise for the series Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human. -- Time praise for the series These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history...Sinclair's historical acumen and his calculations about powerful institutions--government, press, corporations, oil cartels and lobbyists--remain remarkably shrewd and often prescient. -- New York Times praise for the series 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 [Upton Sinclair's] novels. -- George Bernard Shaw praise for the series

""A great and well-balanced design...I think it the completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done."" -- ""H. G. Wells, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the series"" ""These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history."" -- ""New York Times, praise for the series"" ""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 [Upton Sinclair's] novels."" -- ""George Bernard Shaw, playwright and Nobel Prize winner, praise for the author"" ""Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human."" -- ""Time, praise for the series""

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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a journalist, a prominent social and political activist, and the author of over one hundred books, including the novel Dragon's Teeth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. He is perhaps best known for The Jungle, the dramatic exposé of the Chicago meat-packing industry that prompted the investigation by Theodore Roosevelt that culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906. Bronson Pinchot, Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible's Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People's Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

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