Sydney, 1942: a city in wartime. As nightclubs are raided the sly-grog trade thrives and public toilets become the hunting grounds for corrupt police running an entrapment scheme. As journalists, lawyers and establishment figures close in on this scandal, figures from the city's demi-monde must reckon with how to survive in dangerous times. Though a standalone novel, The Trap is also a natural successor to Iris, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, NSW Premier's Awards, ALS Gold Medal and longlisted for the Stella Prize. The Trap dramatizes the 1943 Sydney police entrapment scandal around the real constables Carney and Grigg and the wrongful arrest of men in public toilets - a foundational episode in Australian queer legal history, largely unknown to general readers.