1 month ago 25th Nov 10:44
The Trafficked has detective Johnny Mann on a quest to find a missing triad's daughter, Amy Tang, who has been kidnapped from an English boarding school.
Not long after Mann's arrival in the UK an arson attack kills twelve women and children chained to their beds. Mann finds a link between the attack and the power struggle going on between the Flesh Trade Mafia in Asia.
Amy's father is one of the players in the sex trafficking business and Mann heads back to Asia to find the truth behind Amy's kidnap and the person responsible, before triad war breaks out.
The book sits between two genres - slasher and thriller which while making for an interesting book can neither keep pace with the perversions of today's horror output nor evoke the psychological fragility and investment necessary to make it a convincing thriller.
This said the book is ever more convincing because but for the catagory fiction the actions between the covers are all to true.
Weeks strikes a balance by taking the reader into the grim desperate world of people trafficking decribing uncomfortable mixture of violence and under age sex but manages to stop short of producing porn.
This is certainly a solid and a worthwhile contribution to the genre; better written than most and more committed. There is a sense of moral apathy about the book's dark topic that at times make this an interesting examination of sex crimes and corruption, but Johnny Mann's facile and action hero attitude soon remove the subject of its magnitude and realism and create a plot direction that while perfectly readable, does not leave any great lasting impression.
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