Satan and Iscariot

Karl May’s Satan and Iscariot is a sprawling adventure novel that blends travel narrative, frontier romance, moral allegory, and sensational melodrama. Set largely in the American West and extending into Mexico and the Near East, it follows Old Shatterhand and Winnetou through a world of deception, captivity, vengeance, and providential justice. Like much of May’s fiction, the novel combines vivid...