The Informer

Was Annika's death an accident or murder? Zsolt learns of Annika's sudden death on the way to the British Museum. Symi, once a friend of Annika, asks Zsolt for her correspondence, but Zsolt wants to investigate immediately, flies to London, and meets Symi and her friend, Helen. At Club Tango Argentino they meet Marcel, their former boyfriend, and his partner, Joan, a famous Tango dancing couple. At Helen's party, Marcel wants to sexually provoke Symi, Zsolt confronts Marcel and, after a heated chase, is stabbed. Symi and Helen, sweethearts, care for him and involve him in their act of love. Marcel provokes Zsolt, kidnaps Symi, and forces her to work for him as an informant. Zsolt and Helen's attempt to break Symi free is within reach, but Zsolt is knocked out by Marcel, L'homme Tango. He has faced a changed Marcel and meets his cousin John, who advises him strategically and can count on effective backup from his uncle. The situation escalates into a deadly confrontation and tension mounts as Marcel, the Tango Man, challenges Zsolt to a duel. Will he be able to save Symi? Zsolt and John are prepared.

Born in Eastern Austria, close to the Hungarian border, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation's suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married, and sailed for the Cape of Africa, an adventure that followed his childhood dreams. He had drawn African animals for his art classes, but the time had come to see them in their natural habitat. Meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman in an Engineering office, as an architect for a cultural centre, and as a coordinator of craftsmen and professionals, he made good use of his language skills traveling throughout Southern Africa. During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and with typified movements of animals and humans. It made a lasting impression on him and influenced his artistic work. His vast collection of drawings and slides had been lost during a change of domiciles, but further studies about the art of the San people reawakened his dormant artistic longing for expression of his art, filling sketchbooks with drawings and notebooks with poetry and prose. While visiting the capitals of Europe, he sensed the bond of art being borderless and free, reaching out across continents into the world. During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets, who encouraged him to continue his art and a friend introduced him to the works of famous Greek poets. In South Africa, he joined writing and poetry workshops that lead to open the floodgates of his creativity. He decided to travel through Greece and visit its sites of antiquity, read up on Classical mythology, and enjoy translations of Greek poetry and prose. He settled in 2013/14 in Klosterneuburg-Weidling, a historic and romantic village, part of the culturally important city of Klosterneuburg, where he now lives and works. Poet Nikolaus Lenau is buried here and Franz Kafka visited here. Their work will always be an inspiration.