This is MacLean's fourth book, published in 1959. I did not think it as good as Where Eagles Dare, for one. It is the seventh MacLean book I've read. The hero does impossible things and there are waves of excitement, as Michael Reynolds goes to Hungary to get a British scientist out ot the hands of the evil Communists. ( )

One of my favorite MacLean books. It was also published as The Last Frontier. ( )

Gripping cold war story set in post-56 Hungary. I gave a copy to Tom Parris & his Hungarian wife Vicky as a token wedding present.

Early Maclean. Gripping story of spy undercover in Communist Hungary. One of his best. ( )

Winters are silent in Budapest, silent and dark, and behind some door in some ancient street Harold Jennings, the brilliant British scientist, sat rehearsing a speech denouncing his own country.
The Communists intended to use Jennings' speech as the propoganda coup of the decade. The British were equally determined that it should never be delivered.
Michael Reynolds, Britain's top agent, was given the impossible assignment - enter Hungary, kidnap dr. Jennings and return him to the free world; and this, Reynolds decided, was roughly like trying to find an invisible needle in a burning haystack. -- From the web (http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Den/706...)