The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two
Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest
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The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two
Wide Is the Gate, Presidential Agent, and Dragon Harvest
About This Book
Books four through six in the Pulitzer Prize–winning series of historical novels about an international spy in the first half of the twentieth century. An ambitious and entertaining mix of history, adventure, and romance, Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author's vision and his singular talents as a storyteller. "Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human" ( Time ). In these three novels, as the threat of Nazism grows in the 1930s, Lanny progresses from international art dealer to international spy. Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business agreement with Hermann Göring, Lanny uses the opportunity and his art world reputation to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information he can transmit back to those who are dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. He's playing a dangerous—albeit necessary—game, which will carry him from Germany to Spain on a life-and-death mission on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. The Presidential Agent: In 1937, Lanny's boss from the Paris Peace Conference—now one of Roosevelt's top advisors—connects him to the president. Appointed Presidential Agent 103, he 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. Dragon Harvest: Lanny has earned the trust of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, who are convinced the American art dealer is a "true believer" committed to their Fascist cause. But when Roosevelt's secret agent learns of the Führer's plans for conquest, his dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other reluctant European leaders fall on deaf ears. The bitter seeds sown decades earlier with the Treaty of Versailles are now bearing fruit, and there will be no stopping the Nazi war machine as it rolls relentlessly on toward Paris.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Wide Is the Gate
- Book One: Into the Lion’s Mouth
- 1 Dust to Dust
- 2 Indoctus Pauperiem Pati
- 3 A Young Man Married
- 4 When Duty Whispers
- Book Two: Some Hidden Thunder
- 5 Des Todes Eigen
- 6 On Top of the World
- 7 Spirits of Just Men
- 8 The Dusky Clouds Ascending
- 9 Shape of Danger
- Book Three: The Worst Is Yet to Come
- 10 The Head That Wears a Crown
- 11 Farewell to Every Fear
- 12 Perilous Edge of Battle
- 13 A Brand from Heaven
- Book Four: Truth Forever on the Scaffold
- 14 When We Two Parted
- 15 Need a Body Cry?
- 16 Survival of the Fittest
- 17 A Fruitless Crown
- Book Five: A Tide in the Affairs of Men
- 18 Fears of the Brave
- 19 Where Men Decay
- 20 Disastrous Twilight
- 21 Hazard of the Die
- Book Six: Through Slaughter to a Throne
- 22 Put Money in Thy Purse
- 23 Sic Transit Gloria
- 24 True Faith of an Armorer
- 25 O Freude, Habe Acht!
- Book Seven: A Hangman’s Whip
- 26 Perils Did Abound
- 27 The Way to Dusty Death
- 28 So Money Comes Withal
- Book Eight: The World Turned Pale
- 29 Ignorant Armies
- 30 My Life Upon a Cast
- 31 Put It to the Touch
- 32 And Win or Lose it All
- Presidential Agent
- Book One: Seats of the Mighty
- 1 Sweet Aspect of Princes
- 2 Wise as Serpents
- 3 Trust in Princes
- 4 Plus Triste Que Les Nuits
- Book Two: Wrong Forever on the Throne
- 5 Forward Into Battle
- 6 Blondel Song
- 7 Spain’s Chivalry Away
- 8 This Yellow Slave
- Book Three: Most Disastrous Chances
- 9 His Honor Rooted in Dishonor
- 10 Falsely True
- 11 Time by the Forelock
- 12 Observe the Opportunity
- 13 My Life on Any Chance
- Book Four: In the Midst of Wolves
- 14 The Jingling of the Guinea
- 15 To Have a Giant’s Strength
- 16 Fuming Vanities
- 17 Dangerous Majesty
- Book Five: Extravagant and Erring Spirit
- 18 Après Nous Le Déluge
- 19 Vaulting Ambition
- 20 Mohammed’s Mountain
- 21 Der Führer Hat Immer Recht
- 22 Foul Deeds Will Rise
- Book Six: A Full Hot Horse
- 23 Les Beaux Yeux De Ma Casette
- 24 God’s Footstool
- 25 Slings and Arrows
- 26 Pleasure Never Is at Home
- Book Seven: The Things That Are Caesar’s
- 27 Fever of the World
- 28 The Stars in their Courses
- 29 The Hurt That Honor Feels
- 30 Hell’s Foundations Tremble
- 31 Courage Mounteth with Occasion
- Dragon Harvest
- Book One: Regardless of their Doom
- 1 The Little Victims Play
- 2 Cherry Ripe, Ripe, Ripe!
- 3 Gold Will Be Master
- 4 Portents of Impending Doom
- Book Two: Who Sups with the Devil
- 5 The Pitcher to the Well
- 6 Fighting the Devil with Fire
- 7 Heute Gehört Uns Deutschland
- 8 Face of Danger
- 9 Time Gallops Withal
- Book Three: Let Joy Be Unconfined
- 10 When Fortune Favors
- 11 The Trail of the Serpent
- 12 T’Other Dear Charmer Away
- 13 Where Duty Calls Me
- Book Four: The Brazen Throat of War
- 14 The Best-Laid Schemes
- 15 Fools Rush In
- 16 Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Book Five: Ancestral Voices Prophesying War
- 17 Oh, What a Tangled Web!
- 18 Grasp the Nettle
- 19 Double-Dyed Deceiver
- 20 They That Take the Sword
- 21 Auf den Bergen 1st Freiheit
- Book Six: Let Slip the Dogs of War
- 22 Mournful Midnight Hours
- 23 Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd
- 24 A House Divided
- 25 On with the Dance
- Book Seven: The Winds Blew and Beat upon That House
- 26 Time Ambles Withal
- 27 With Hell at Agreement
- 28 The Sparks Fly Upward
- Book Eight: The Flinty and Steel Couch of War
- 29 Secret Dread and Inward Horror
- 30 Those in Peril on the Sea
- 31 Even in the Cannon’s Mouth
- 32 They That Worship the Beast
- Preview: A World to Win
- About the Author
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