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
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
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