Review: A Story Told with incredible Detail
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2012
In MURDER ON THE DANUBE William S. Shepard does an incredibly thorough job of retelling the story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. American diplomat Robbie Cutler, serving in post-cold war Budapest is drawn into the events surrounding the murder of an Hungarian-American who had been a key figure in the fight for freedom in the 1956 resistance shortly after he makes an appointment to see Robbie-- an appointment he never got to keep.The story is told with an abundance of period detail and an understanding of the diplomatic service that only someone like Shepard who, as a career diplomat, served as Consul and Political Officer at the American Embassy in Budapest, could supply. Shepard was even made an Honorary Hungarian Freedom Fighter at the 25th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The flashbacks to 1956 truly give the reader a feeling for what it must have been like then for those who stood for freedom.