The Return of Lanny Budd

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historical saga, an American spy during WWII is called back into action in post-war Germany as the Cold War begins.

From the Paris Peace Conference to the Battle of the Bulge, Lanny Budd has played key roles in the extraordinary events of his age. Now Presidential Agent 103 is coming out of retirement to serve his country—and the free world—once more.

A counterfeiting conspiracy hatched by unrepentant neo-Nazis threatens to gravely damage America’s efforts to rebuild and stabilize a divided Germany. Lanny’s previous experience, as well as his unexpected connection to one of the chief conspirators, makes him the ideal operative to foil the sinister plot. But when he infiltrates the Russian-controlled sector, what Lanny sees makes his blood run cold. Communist leader and former US ally Joseph Stalin has twisted the socialist ideals he holds dear into weapons of tyranny, oppression, and terror. With the onset of a shadow war between two world superpowers, Lanny realizes that his mission is far from over.

The Return of Lanny Budd is the final volume 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] most faithful portrait of that period that has been done or will likely be done.” —H. G. Wells