Dragon Harvest is the sixth novel in Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. First published in 1945, the story covers the period from 1939 to 1940. Plot Early 1939. Lanny Budd, dilettante art dealer and secret FDR agent, is home on the Riviera. Monck arrives on his way to rejoin the German underground. Barcelona has fallen and Madrid cannot hold. Partying among Cape society, has-been Winston Churchill rails against the Nazis and admits he was wrong on Spain; no one listens, except Lanny. Beauty receives a wealthy Baltimore family and their eligible daughter Lizbeth. Wall Street financiers now control Budd Gunmakers; Robbie is now selling Budd-Ehrling warplanes. Goring has bought some planes, but cheated on his deal; Robbie and Lanny, in Paris, navigate the minefield of French high politics, where rightists oppose arming as they want accord with Hitler. In Berlin, Goring promises to investigate alleged patent and licensing violations. Lanny thinks about Laurel Creston, an antifascist American writer living in Berlin whom he met at an opening; Creston says Lanny is a political "troglodyte," but she suspects something about the handsome American. Robbie, seeking payback, sets Lanny to steal a model of Goring's new supercharger. Monck manages to pose as the unsuspecting Laurel's chauffeur; they drive a stolen supercharger device out of Naziland. Nazi troops occupy Prague. To Rick's disgust, Chamberlain stands down. Earl "Ceddy" Wickthorpe, husband of Lanny's ex-wife Irma and stepfather to Lanny's daughter, is starting to suspect Hitler; he agrees with Lanny that Hitler's cessions of certain Czech land to Hungary show accommodation to Stalin. The UK upper class still prefers Hitler over Stalin; Lanny advises FDR “that is the key to the understanding of all political events in Europe.” FDR chafes under the U.S. Neutrality Acts. Lanny meets with Nazi sympathizers and art customers in Detroit including Henry Ford and Father Coughlin. Lizbeth and family buy an interest in Budd-Ehrling. Lizbeth is kind, beautiful and rich, but Lanny seeks a marriage of minds. Robbie and Lanny are summoned to D.C. by Professor Alston, who pretends he hasn't seen Lanny for twenty years. He tells Robbie all new warplanes must now be sold to the U.S. military, to be paid via the WPA, nominally a work-welfare agency. Robbie asks Lanny to explain to Goring, whose business Robbie may seek in the future. In Berlin, Monck warns of a Nazi-Stalin pact, and says Laurel is too openly anti-Nazi.