The hotel never had a name. Deep in the Tatra's No Entry Zone, it was known only to elite members of the Party. At the far end of the Syroka Water Valley, the luxurious facility had a full detachment of Secret Service guards, not to "protect and serve" but to "protect and surveil" maids, waiters, bell boys, chefs, kitchen staff, and managers. Guests knew who would run them down if they violated the secrecy policy.?The abbreviation "NEZ" was used by the well-connected and those in the know, but today this usage is gone without a trace, just like the nameless hotel. The secluded valley where NEZ once welcomed provincial governors and well-connected apparatchiks to its spa, excellent cuisine, unlimited wine and beer (and other pleasures best left to the imagination) is deserted. Overgrown. Nothing remains?"Perfect satire on Poland during the communist era, written with verve and wit."- Tatry Quarterly"I am about to reveal events that occurred in the No Entry Zone hotel, built in the Tatra Mountains in secret, by the Polish United Workers' Party. The Tatras are inhabited by marmots, chamois, lynx, eagles, bears, and generations of rustic highlanders who speak their own dialect, live by their own rules, and in the course of six centuries have never found a good reason to integrate with the rest of Polish society."- From Chapter One