One Clear Call

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 collapse of the Third Reich.

One Clear Call is the thrilling ninth installment of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatization of 20th century world history.

Praise for the Lanny Budd Novels

"Remarkably shrewd and often prescient." — The New York Times

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

"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 [Sinclair's] novels." —George Bernard Shaw

"The completest and most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done." —H. G. Wells