Lustration

by Gerard McCann

For Professor Luka Gabreski, scholar and son of a Polish émigré, the process of Lustration is more of an academic exercise than a personal quest. For Doctor Kasia Lubeka and others who live in the legacy of communist Poland, it is deeply personal.
The operatives of the secret police and their informants have much to answer for; their influence never really went away. People are still at risk in this new Cold War. The threat is not only with those who fight to bring truth to light, but those for whom the nightmare of interrogation, surveillance and torture, never ended.
In Poland for a conference, Luka soon realises that the dangers of shining a spotlight on the past are all too real, and as deadly as ever.

294 pages, Paperback

Published July 28, 2016

About the author

Gerard McCann grew up in the north of Ireland and currently lives in Lisburn, County Antrim. He is a senior lecturer in International Studies and head of International Activities at St Mary's University College, Queen's University, Belfast. He has been an Erasmus Coordinator for fifteen years and in that capacity has worked in numerous universities across the European Union. He spent the past four summers teaching on courses in Poland and Hungary. He has worked in an advisory capacity at governmental and EU level, and has guest lecturing experience in the USA, Africa and across Europe.
He has published a number of books on regional and international development. In his spare time, he acts as an advocate for the African diaspora in the UK and Ireland. Lustration is his first novel.