Fall From Grace - Brossura

Sleem, Patty

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1475182759 ISBN 13: 9781475182750

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

WINNER OF HONORABLE MENTION AWARDS in both the General Fiction and Spiritual Categories, London Book Festival, 2014. A fast-paced mystery which provides a unique perspective on the business of human trafficking. FALL FROM GRACE is the second novel in Patty Sleem's Maggie Mysteries. The first novel was BACK IN TIME. From an orphanage in Moldova to Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean, London, Dubai, Russia, Germany, and Mexico, follow the lives of girls ensnared in sex trafficking in some of the world's most glamorous locations. Peek inside the business of trafficking humans, meet the brains behind this multibillion-dollar business, understand human slavery from a business perspective, and learn how human trafficking kingpins operate. Meet top managers of the human trafficking business and listen to their predictions for profitability, market share, future opportunities, and potential pitfalls. Watch as the tycoons try to recover from a catastrophe that could reveal their secrets and topple their worldwide empire.Get to know an orphanage director who becomes embroiled in a murder mystery that threatens to derail her marriage and career--if she lives through it. Meet the wealthy Jamaican who adopts her cause as his own, and travel worldwide with detectives trying to solve the mystery. Be ready to handle the action as chapter after chapter exposes the underbelly of the business of owning, renting, and selling humans.Meet a wealthy British Lord who plays a curious role in the human trafficking network, and follow him as his actions take him from obscurity to notoriety. See how a member of the elite British aristocracy makes his home within the unlikely environment of human trafficking. Become a sleuth yourself as you follow theories and clues revealed by the author in a well-written mystery. Readers will find themselves transported to exciting locations by an author who paints vivid pictures of some of the world's most beautiful landscapes and gardens. Hang out with the jet set and travel first class as the author takes you on an adventure that will open your eyes and stimulate your senses while you learn the inner secrets of the human trafficking business.

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L'autore:

Author Patty Sleem holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of the Maggie Mysteries, a series which features Methodist minister Maggie Dillitz who has traded in a successful corporate career for a second career as a Methodist minister. Fall from Grace is the second book in the Maggie Mysteries. Back in Time was Sleem's first novel in the Maggie Mysteries. In addition to writing fiction, Sleem is the author of 42 non-fiction career how-to books by PREP Publishing. She is at work on the third book in the Maggie Mysteries which will focus on the bloated and dysfunctional prison system in the U.S.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1475182759
• ISBN 13: 9781475182750
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176