The Return of Lanny Budd
Published on 19. January 2016
528 pages
978-1-5040-2655-0 (ISBN)
Description
Presidential secret agent Lanny Budd is called back into action in post-war Germany as the Cold War begins
Since the age of thirteen, Lanny Budd has been more than an eyewitness to history. From the Paris Peace Conference to the Battle of the Bulge, he has played key roles in the extraordinary events of his age. Now, forty years later, Presidential Agent 103 is coming out of retirement to serve his country-and the free world-once more.
A counterfeiting conspiracy hatched by unrepentant neo-Nazis threatens to gravely damage America's efforts to rebuild and stabilize a divided Germany. Lanny's previous experience, as well as his unexpected connection to one of the chief conspirators, makes him the ideal operative to foil the sinister plot. But when he infiltrates the Russian-controlled sector, what Lanny sees makes his blood run cold. Communist leader and former US ally Joseph Stalin has twisted the socialist ideals he holds dear into weapons of tyranny, oppression, and terror. With the onset of a shadow war between two world superpowers, Lanny realizes that his mission is far from over.
The Return of Lanny Budd is the final volume of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. A thrilling mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author's vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
Since the age of thirteen, Lanny Budd has been more than an eyewitness to history. From the Paris Peace Conference to the Battle of the Bulge, he has played key roles in the extraordinary events of his age. Now, forty years later, Presidential Agent 103 is coming out of retirement to serve his country-and the free world-once more.
A counterfeiting conspiracy hatched by unrepentant neo-Nazis threatens to gravely damage America's efforts to rebuild and stabilize a divided Germany. Lanny's previous experience, as well as his unexpected connection to one of the chief conspirators, makes him the ideal operative to foil the sinister plot. But when he infiltrates the Russian-controlled sector, what Lanny sees makes his blood run cold. Communist leader and former US ally Joseph Stalin has twisted the socialist ideals he holds dear into weapons of tyranny, oppression, and terror. With the onset of a shadow war between two world superpowers, Lanny realizes that his mission is far from over.
The Return of Lanny Budd is the final volume of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. A thrilling mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author's vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
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Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, activist, and politician whose novel
The Jungle (1906)led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. Born into an impoverished family in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair entered City College of New York five days before his fourteenth birthday. He wrote dime novels and articles for pulp magazines to pay for his tuition, and continued his writing career as a graduate student at Columbia University. To research
The Jungle, he spent seven weeks working undercover in Chicago's meatpacking plants. The book received great critical and commercial success, and Sinclair used the proceeds to start a utopian community in New Jersey. In 1915, he moved to California, where he founded the state's ACLU chapter and became an influential political figure, running for governor as the Democratic nominee in 1934. Sinclair wrote close to one hundred books during his lifetime, including
Oil!(1927), the inspiration for the 2007 movie
There Will Be Blood;
Boston (1928), a documentary novel revolving around the Sacco and Vanzetti case;
The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism; and the eleven novels in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lanny Budd series.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Book One: Saying, Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace
- 1 The Constant Service
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- 2 Know Your Money
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- Book Two: A Man's Reach Must Exceed His Grasp
- 3 Testament of Bleeding War
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- 4 Hoist with His Own Petard
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- 5 Wounds of a Friend
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- 6 A Time to Break Down
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- Book Three: When First We Practice to Deceive
- 7 Hostages to Fortune
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- 8 Spies in Battalions
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- 9 The Uses of Adversity
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- Book Four: Such Tricks Before High Heaven
- 10 The Angels Weep
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- 11 Honour Rooted in Dishonour
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- 12 The Injur'd Lover's Hell
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- Book Five: Fate Sits on These Dark Battlements
- 13 With Bluster to Confound
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- 14 Hanging Breathless
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- 15 If this be Treason
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- Book Six: They That Sow in Tears
- 16 Best Draw My Sword
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- 17 The Evil that Men Do
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- 18 Love Gilds the Scene
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- Book Seven: Bright and Yellow, Hard and Gold
- 19 Root of All Evil
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- 20 In Fragrante Delicto
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- 21 In the Toils of Law
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- Book Eight: Whom the Truth Makes Free
- 22 And Back Resounded, Death
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- 23 The Nations' Airy Navies
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- 24 Man's Unconquerable Mind
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- Book Nine: No Fiend in Hell Can Match
- 25 Into the Jaws of Death
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- 26 God's Opportunity
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- 27 Man's Extremity
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- Book Ten: Thy Friends Are Exultations
- 28 Deus Ex Machina
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- 29 Sweet Land of Liberty
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- 30 Sit Thee Down, Sorrow
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- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
