The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two: Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest

The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two: Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest

by Upton Sinclair

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Perfect for you if...

  • You enjoy historical fiction that's grounded in real events and real people, with a protagonist caught between personal stakes and geopolitical ones.
  • You appreciate espionage thrillers where the tension comes from the protagonist's knowledge that nobody in power will listen to his warnings.
  • You want pre-WWII history told by someone who lived through it, not sanitised or simplified for modern audiences.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You prefer fast-paced modern thrillers with clean resolutions; these books move at a 1930s pace and sometimes readings are bleak.
  • You're looking for a standalone novel; this is volume two of a series and requires familiarity with Lanny Budd's backstory.
  • You want romance as the primary plot; the love story is one thread among many political and espionage storylines.

About this book

This collection contains books four through six of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, following Lanny Budd, a well-connected American art dealer who works undercover for FDR during World War II. Wide Is the Gate: Lanny's arms dealer father conducts business with Hermann Göring, allowing Lanny to move within Nazi high command circles and gather intelligence for those fighting Nazism and Fascism. He undertakes a dangerous mission from Germany to Spain on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. The Presidential Agent: In 1937, Lanny accepts a secret assignment to the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler. His mission becomes personal when the woman he loves is captured by the Gestapo, and he risks everything to rescue her. Dragon Harvest: Having earned the trust of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, Lanny discovers plans for Nazi conquest. His warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders go unheeded as the Nazi war machine advances toward Paris.

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