The Trap
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The Trap
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Narrated by:
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Grant Foulkes
SHORTLISTED - 2026 ARA Historical Novel Prize
SHORTLISTED - 2026 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award
Sydney, October 1942. A wartime city dimmed by brownouts, flush with American cash, rotten with corruption.
For nightclub manager Ray Sayles, a fateful encounter in the Domain turns him into a police target. He's plunged into a system where the rich are untouchable but the marginalised - like notorious queer sly-grogger Iris Webber - are relentlessly targeted, and bent coppers hunt ordinary men whose only crime is desire.
Based on a shocking real-life scandal, The Trap is a blistering, standalone companion to the best-selling Iris. By turns tender and excoriating, it exhumes the hidden history of a city in which the law is a weapon wielded against those deemed deviant - and the most unforgivable vice is the truth.