One Clear Call
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As D-Day approaches, an American spy is unmasked by Himmlerâs Gestapo and must flee the Nazis, in this novel in the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning historical saga.
In 1943, the once-unstoppable Nazi war machine is starting to falter. For a decade and a half, Lanny Buddâs cover as a fine-art dealer and Fascist sympathizer has held firm, earning him the confidence of Hermann GÃļring 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, Hitlerâs feared Gestapo chief, uncovers Lannyâs true loyalties.
Now FDRâs most trusted spy must run for his life, escaping into the European countryside with Hitlerâs 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 Sinclairâs Pulitzer Prizeâwinning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. An astonishing mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the authorâs singular talents as a storyteller.
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Upton Sinclair (1878â1968) was a journalist, a prominent social and political activist, and the author of over one hundred books, including the novel Dragonâs Teeth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943. He is perhaps best known for The Jungle, the dramatic exposÊ of the Chicago meat-packing industry that prompted the investigation by Theodore Roosevelt that culminated in the pure-food legislation of 1906.
Bronson Pinchot, Audibleâs Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audibleâs 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 Peopleâs 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.
