Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America »

Author and journalist Kati Marton was born in Hungary and has spent two decades writing and reporting from the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Ms. Marton is a director and former chairperson of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and a member of the Freedom Forum's Media Studies Center Advisory Committee. She also serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee, the New America Foundation, the J. Anthony Lukas Memorial Foundation, the Central European University, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Ms.

In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were—-and how they survived the Nazis in Budapest and imprisonment by the Soviets during the Cold War.

The New York Times - Alan Furst

…a powerful and absolutely absorbing narrative of [Marton's] parents' journey—a series of escapes, from Hitler, from Stalin, eventually to America…has all the magnetism and, yes, the excitement, of the very best spy fiction…in the end, Enemies of the People becomes a treatise on human nature—at its best, at its worst—and Marton is enough of a good journalist, and a good human being, to take that for what it is: applaud the love and the heroism, deplore the cowardice and the cruelty, and go on with life.