Presidential Agent

This, the fifth Lanny Budd novel, continues the somewhat curious mixture of adventure, history, and romance of the series. In [b:Presidential Agent 28601213 Presidential Agent (The Lanny Budd Novels) Upton Sinclair https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1453180481s/28601213.jpg 7387664] Lanny becomes a secret agent working directly for FDR. (Presidential agent #103, no license to kill.) At the start Lanny is also deeply concerned about the fate of his beloved Trudi, who was grabbed by the Nazis toward the end of the previous volume. Those two elements (agent + lover in peril) promised a good action-thriller. Unfortunately, that isn't what we got. I found this volume a bit tedious. It seems like Sinclair decided to give his views in great detail on all the decisions and activities in Europe in 1938 that pushed the world to the brink of WW2. The story suffered somewhat as a result.I will continue with the series.