A thrilling and chilling book about how the past is never passed. Innocent eyes open at discovering betrayal and collaboration when a communist state collapses a fine. novel that is all too true to life -- Geoffrey Robertson QC (a human rights barrister, academic, author and broadcaster) Mysterious, thrilling and dramatic. The Budapest Job is an extraordinary book, a skilful and fast moving, sometimes frightening evocation of the agonies of Hungary under Stalinism and still today. -- William Shawcross (author)