The Hiding Place in Balatonfüred

Odysseus has stepped away from active operations and is working on a book about the Slovak national uprising. To study the subject in more detail, he travels to Banska Bystrica, to the museum of the uprising. There he is met with a directive from headquarters—to contact his general’s Hungarian friend, who has sent some rather strange news. It turns out that certain politicians from a Hungarian far-right camp, at the direction of their “handlers,” have planned to detach from Slovakia territories inhabited by Hungarians—so weapons and trained militants are already being sent into Slovakia. Odysseus receives an order—to stop the brewing conflict—so he uses a cache of explosives left by the Soviet Army in Hungary. As a result of the explosion of a dam, one and a half million tons of alkaline waste spills into sparsely populated areas near Veszprém, and the Hungarian government is forced to put aside plans to destabilize Slovakia and instead focus on saving the country from an environmental catastrophe.