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Incident in Budapest
Paperback
Publisher Price: $26.99
ISBN13: 9781962834773
Publisher: Calumet Editions
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A journalist sent to Budapest for a magazine profile. A world-famous Russian ballerina ready to defect. A flash drive that could alter the balance of power.
Mort Ahrens is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington Post reporter trying to build a quieter life as a freelancer, husband, and father. Then a mysterious government operative known only as Gray Man offers him an assignment that sounds simple enough: fly to Budapest, interview Svetlana Ivanov-the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet-and return home with material for a major magazine profile.
But Svetlana is not only a dancer. She is a Russian dissident with access to information the United States desperately wants: the latest intelligence on Russia's nuclear readiness. The problem is that American intelligence channels may already be compromised, and Svetlana is under constant watch.
Mort is not a spy. He is not a trained operative. But his public credentials make him the perfect courier.
What begins as a glamorous international assignment soon becomes a dangerous test of loyalty, courage, and improvisation. In Budapest, Mort must navigate Russian minders, government secrets, and the moral risks of helping a woman whose life depends on getting to the West. Back home, his wife Danni-a fierce constitutional law professor-finds herself pulled into a parallel fight over civil liberties, federal power, and the consequences of a government willing to bend the rules.
Blending international espionage, political suspense, sharp dialogue, and family drama, Incident in Budapest is a fast-moving thriller about ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances-and the price of doing the right thing when no institution can be fully trusted.
For readers who enjoy political thrillers, spy fiction, international suspense, Russian intrigue, and character-driven stories where global danger collides with domestic consequence.
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