The Informer
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Zsolt Battis receives documents from Annika Thanatos for safekeeping, after receiving death threats visiting London. Her friend Symi Heyman informs Zsolt of Annika’s death. Zsolt grieves for her and intrigued by Symi’s repeated requests for Annika’s letters, he’ll use them to revenge her death.
As portrait artist he gains the trust of Symi and her confidant.
Symi introduces him to Marcel Lasri at Tate Modern. Tango Man will constantly challenge Zsolt about Symi, persuading her and Helen Bydand, her soulmate to join his Tango Argentino school.
At a party in Helen’s Hampstead home, an angry Zsolt saves Symi from an abusive Marcel, he chases to the Heath Ponds, where Marcel disappears between the bathers. He waylays Zsolt, knifing him.
Under Helen’s and Symi’s care Zsolt recovers. He meets Susan Bolag, who seduces him while he paints her.
Zsolt meets Susan by accident in Budapest and she reveals to him part of her secret life. On Helen’s call to Zsolt that Marcel’s men have abducted Symi, Susan shares with him secrets about the ring of Informers, she is part of.
Helen and Zsolt race to Paris, realizing that they are followed.
Marcel foils the handover of Symi for bribe-money to their guards and rescuing Symi, he is hit unconscious by Marcel.
Helen, rushing to save Symi, perishes on an exploding bus. John, Zsolt’s cousin has decoded the message in Annika’s letters. Tate Modern is celebrating, bombs are primed, as Zsolt has to save Symi from the Tango Man’s deadly dance.
About the Author
Z J Galos was born in eastern Austria, close to the border of Hungary. He witnessed as a boy the horrors of a nationÕs suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution in 1958. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married and sailed for Africa, to seek his childhood dreams and see elephants; he had drawn for his art classes, 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, as coordinator with professionals and craftsmen, he made good use of his language skills, travelling throughout Southern Africa. On a trip to Lesotho a native artist showed to him rock paintings that made a lasting impression on him with their stark palimpsest outlines and typified movements of animals and humans. It would influence his artistic work. His vast collection of slides and drawings had been lost during a change of domicile, but further studies of the art of t he San people reawakened his dormant artistic longing for expression, filling sketchbooks with drawings and notebooks with prose. While revisiting the capitals of Europe, he sensed the bond of art being borderless and free, reaching out across continents into the world. During an exhibition of ÔPicasso in AfricaÕ, he started to evolve his character Zsolt, whoÕs vocation is teaching and living art as a unifier and healer. Encouraged by friends and fellow writers, his passion unfolded for novel writing.