Presidential Agent, Upton Sinclair
Presidential Agent, Upton Sinclair
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Presidential Agent

Author: Upton Sinclair

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 29 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2022

Synopsis

On the eve of World War II, Lanny Budd reenters the deadly snake pit of Nazi Germany as Roosevelt’s spy—in the pulse-pounding, Pulitzer Prize–winning series.An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is dedicated to his socialist ideals and to combatting the twin scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, a chance encounter in New York with Professor Charles Alston—his boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt’s top advisors—provides Lanny with the opportunity to make a profound difference.Appointed Presidential Agent 103, the international art dealer embarks on a secret assignment that takes him back into the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile attempt to avoid war. But Lanny’s motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her.Presidential Agent is the action-packed fifth installment of Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to dramatic life. An astonishing mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his 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 Diana on September 04, 2013

Yes, I'm a card-carrying invisible little old lady! Many of us, I am sure, reach our 60s and rapidly become aware of the salesgirl's eyes glazing over when we approach, men looking through us rather than at us and the woman 20 years younger than we are gets served first at the butcher's shop, while......more

Goodreads review by Ingo on January 10, 2015

Got this cheap as an edition with the other 2 Women Sleuths book. No Angela Tate here, which is just as well. Too long, the ending with a nice conclusion to nearly all story-lines, was good, which saved it from getting 1 star. Not all endings will satisfy, but are realistic and some things open to int......more

Goodreads review by Jodi on November 13, 2013

Fast paced, interesting characters, but plot somewhat outlandish. Using the invisibility of the elderly/seniors generation in the plot is genius and it is done with humor that is both refreshing and fun to read, especially since I can identify with being treated as such myself these days! Ha! What's......more

Goodreads review by Jeanne on January 14, 2013

I loved this book. My name is Jeanne, and the protagonist is also Jean. She is a senior citizen who takes on the crime and the police in New York. She is one brave women. There were a lot of problems with the police, but she hung in there and did whatever was necessary to make the good guys win and......more

Goodreads review by Lizzy on December 31, 2014

Decent book but not her best A follow on to "Loyal Servant" but doesn't pack the same punch. An OK book, I don't wish I hadn't read it but it's not great.......more

Quotes

“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

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

“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

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