The Arch-Traitor's Lament

The Arch-Traitor's Lamentis epic in scope and breathtaking in its execution. Steve Sankey is flying to London with his wife and daughter when his plane makes an unscheduled stopover in a strange and forbidding European country. He steps out of the Hotel Karl Marx to buy his child a drink and is arrested by the secret police. Terrifying dangers await him in his new life.

In this tragic and exuberant novel Garry Satherley describes the metamorphosis of Sankey into Senki Istvan, a man destined to wait out his days in a crumbling tenement in the capital. Here, remembering his old life in Australia, he meets the arch-traitor, who tells his own heartbreaking tale of life in his 'regrettable' country.

Peopled by the likes of Major Jozsef, Madam Toth and Doktor Ember, The Arch-Traitor's Lamentis a sweeping fable about love and loss, about truth and betrayal, about history and politics. It is the work of a masterly new storyteller.