Wide Is the Gate

In "Wide Is the Gate," the fourth installment of Upton Sinclair's eleven-part Lanny Budd series, Lanny becomes a secret double agent in Nazi Germany while grappling with his commitment to social justice and his life as an aristocrat in England with his wife, Irma Barnes. As he navigates the dangers of war and political turmoil, Lanny collaborates with a German socialist named Monck to support the resistance against fascism and Nazism. His mission deepens when he uses proceeds from confiscated art to finance the underground movement, all while directly confronting figures like Hermann Göring.