A Novel · Literary Espionage

Strix

— Traffic of Lies

A quiet bureau in Gateway Gardens. A girl who struggles to survive the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. And a man whose name depends on who is asking.

In Strix — Traffic of Lies, what begins in the alleys of Complexo do Alemão winds through the opera house of Frankfurt, the dark streets of Mainhattan, and the affluent neighbourhoods of Bad Homburg, where a trafficking ring, a biker gang, and a long-buried secret are about to collide.

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Strix — Traffic of Lies by S. Matthaiou. An eagle owl above the Frankfurt skyline at night, with a Christ the Redeemer silhouette reflected in one eye and twin theatre masks in the other.
i.

The Story

"All will be forgotten," Hermann Ritter said.

This is a novel about the small lies that make the large ones possible: the ones we rehearse so carefully we no longer recognise the face in the mirror. Literary, unhurried, and meticulously observed, it is the first book in a series that asks what it costs not to trust even those you love the most.

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Thirteen Chapters

  1. Daiane
  2. The Padaria
  3. Complexo
  4. All is Forgotten
  5. Winter Butterflies
  6. Strix
  7. Frozen Garden
  8. The Price
  9. Fangs
  10. Nothing is Forgotten
  11. Housekeeping
  12. Ritter
  13. The Missed Calls
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The Author

S. Matthaiou, author of Strix — Traffic of Lies

S. Matthaiou

Novelist · Frankfurt

S. Matthaiou writes literary espionage with an ear for geography and a patience for silence. Drawing on years at the intersection of institutions and the private world, his fiction leans close to the documentary. And then closer still, until the seams show.

Strix — Traffic of Lies is his debut novel and the first in a planned series. He writes in British English, in close third person, and prefers a plot that examines the human nature.

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Every secret has a price.
Every lie, a destination.

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