Child Sex Trafficking ...

Sex trafficking - especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls - has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and humans the second most lucrative commodity traded 

THIS article is why I wrote THAT DOG DON'T BARK.

It was happening in Vancouver in the seventies (the time frame of the novel) and is still happening today.  Many of the girls lured into the sex trade are 'throw-away kids' - foster kids, kids from group homes, marginalized street kids.  The Cops label them as runaways and never search for them.

All the crimes committed by the international sex slave traders in the novel are true; girls are lured with drugs, sex, promises of wealth, and yes; they are often shipped overseas in shipping containers, and those that survive that arduous journey emerge into a living hell, those that don't wash up on a foreign beach somewhere.

Aaron D McClelland

Give away #2 ...

If you missed the first giveaway ...

Little Gangsters & Bigger Gangsters

are available for free download on Prolific Works

Until July 31, 2020

https://claims.prolificworks.com/gg/1FrKoMXNZBU4AMQDBgAJ

No gimmicks, no fees.

The first two novels in the series that follows Denny's rise in Vancouver's organized crime world and his lifelong search for love and family.  From his beginnings as the grandson of a bootlegger through his reaching the top seat of the Di Napoli crime family in the new millennium, the Gangster series provides a view into the shadowy world of organized crime and the people in it.

Little Gangsters (1959)

Bigger Gangsters (1969)

Millennial Gangsters (1999)

Gangster's Girl (2015)

&

That Dog Don't Bark (1974)

(a companion piece to Bigger Gangsters)

Aaron D McClelland

Pentincton, British Columbia.

Irish Legend ...

It is said that the old gods pitied the Irish because the constant clouds over their lands kept them from seeing the stars.  So they sprinkled freckles on their cheeks.

The Irish Gaelic word for freckle is 'bricini', meaning; little stars.

The legend is that if every Irish person in the world gathered in one place, their freckles would form a map of the universe.