One Clear Call, Upton Sinclair
One Clear Call, Upton Sinclair
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One Clear Call

Author: Upton Sinclair

Series: Lanny Budd Novels #9

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 26 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/02/2026

Synopsis

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.

About Upton Sinclair

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.

About Bronson Pinchot

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry on March 22, 2026

Although this volume of this 11 book series was published in 1948 it was not converted into the Audible version that I have just listened to until 2026. The next volume is still in process and is supposed to be released in the Audible version in a couple more months. In this age of artificial intelli......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on July 30, 2019

The title is from a Tennyson verse, "Sunset, and evening star, and one clear call for me." One Clear Call begins exactly where the previous volume, Presidential Mission, left the reader, more or less; that is, Lanny and family are in West Coast, Florida, on a much earned holiday. Lanny and Laurel are......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on July 30, 2019

The title is from a Tennyson verse, "Sunset, and evening star, and one clear call for me." One Clear Call begins exactly where the previous volume, Presidential Mission, left the reader, more or less; that is, Lanny and family are in West Coast, Florida, on a much earned holiday. Lanny and Laurel are......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on July 30, 2019

The title is from a Tennyson verse, "Sunset, and evening star, and one clear call for me." One Clear Call begins exactly where the previous volume, Presidential Mission, left the reader, more or less; that is, Lanny and family are in West Coast, Florida, on a much earned holiday. Lanny and Laurel are......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on July 30, 2019

The title is from a Tennyson verse, "Sunset, and evening star, and one clear call for me." One Clear Call begins exactly where the previous volume, Presidential Mission, left the reader, more or less; that is, Lanny and family are in West Coast, Florida, on a much earned holiday. Lanny and Laurel are......more

Quotes

“These historical novels engulfed me in the thrilling and terrible imperatives of history.” New York Times, 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

“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

“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

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