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Published 1948: First UK Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original black cloth with titles on the spine. 608 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners consistent with age. (HQ243)

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With America at war, Lanny Budd risks life and limb from North Africa to Moscow on behalf of the Allied cause

Members of the German high command believe that American art expert Lanny Budd is sympathetic to their cause, but since 1938 he has been an undercover agent working for President Franklin Roosevelt. Now, in 1941, the United States has been pulled into the fray by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Lanny’s services are required more than ever.

In Algiers he must convince the French troops to stand with the Allies in advance of the Axis invasion. A meeting in Moscow, intended to sway Communist despot Joseph Stalin, precedes Hitler’s disastrous decision to invade Russia. Over the course of the next two years, Lanny faces death at virtually every turn as his important presidential missions carry him from the sands of the African desert to the bomb-blasted streets of Berlin.

Presidential Mission is the electrifying eighth chapter of Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. An astonishing mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28601310-presidential-mission