"Alex Kovacs, an ordinary man and an extraordinary spy, has been dispatched to Budapest with a task that is both simple and complicated. In the years after World War II, it went without saying that the Communists were in charge in Hungary. There was no disputing that reality. But in a nation that ping-ponged between the Communists and the Nazis over the previous decades -- and in a city divided not only by the Danube River but by the brutal memories of the war -- Alex was given the job of finding a way to give the West a peek into the hierarchy that ran what had become a major Cold War foe. His post-war employer, the Gehlen Organization, was a German-run intelligence group that was funded partly by the United States because of its contacts in the East, contacts that the Americans could not match. But penetrating the hierarchy of the Hungarian Communist Party? There was nothing simple about that -- nothing simple or safe. And along the way, Alex found himself tangled up in the lives of several other Hungarians, including a monsignor with a secret that would compromise him with both the Catholic Church and the Communists, and a Budapest woman who held a grudge dating back to the war years, a grudge she could not relinquish." -- Amazon.com
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