One Clear Call

by Upton Sinclair Narrated by Bronson Pinchot

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.

Editorial Reviews

praise for the series New York Times

These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history.”

H. G. Wells

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.”

George Bernard Shaw

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.”

praise for the series Time

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

New York Times 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.”

George Bernard Shaw 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.”

H. G. Wells 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.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940192641347
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	11/12/2024
Series:	Lanny Budd Series , #9
Edition description:	Unabridged
Sales rank:	913,845