Budapest, winter 1944. A city under siege. As the Russians advance, Miklos Farkas risks death to break out of the ghetto to find food for his wife. But when Miklos stumbles upon a horrifying secret he knows his knowledge must stay hidden for decades if he is to stay alive.

Sixty years later his grandson Alex begins to unravel a sinister conspiracy rooted in the dying days of the Third Reich. Alex is soon drawn deeper into a deadly web of intrigue and power play, a game played for the highest stakes: the very future of Europe. He too must battle his own demons as he uncovers a shadowy alliance that the world once thought had been defeated for good.

Powerful, controversial and thought-provoking, Night Hotel is a journey into Europe's hidden heart of darkness...

Night Hotel is a work of fiction. But it was inspired in part by a real document, known as the "Red House Report", a four-page U.S. intelligence memo. Dated November 7, 1944, it was compiled by G-8, the Economics Section of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force). It describes in detail the "plans of German industrialists to engage in underground activity after Germany's defeat" and to organise "the flow of capital to neutral countries". The source was an agent of the French Deuxieme Bureau (military intelligence) who attended the meeting of German industrialists and senior Nazi officials at the Red House hotel in Strasbourg, France on August 10, 1944.

Download the "Red House Report" here (pen markings as on original).