Dragon's Teeth

Summary

Cosmopolitan American art dealer Lanny Budd moves between Paris, Berlin, and other European capitals from 1929 to 1934, watching at close range as the Weimar Republic gives way to Nazi rule. Sinclair blends documentary detail with melodrama, using Lanny's social access to take readers inside boardrooms, salons, and political back channels of an unraveling Europe. The novel was meant to alert American readers to the moral and political dangers of fascism on the eve of the country's full entry into World War II.