Secret kingdom - Francis Bennett

The date is 1956 and the Hungarian uprising is brewing in Eastern Europe . . .Bobby Martineau, the SIS man first encountered in Making Enemies, has been posted to Budapest, from where he reports to London about the growing crisis. The Hungarians, he knows, are prepared to risk their lives against the Soviet oppressors because they believe the West will support them. But they - and Martineau - reckon without the cynical jockeying for position in London, where whole nations can be sacrificed on the altar of career opportunity. Martineau's dilemma is exacerbated by his deepening relationship with Eva, a woman well known to both Russian and Hungarian security forces, and with plenty of reasons for hating the regime . . .