Joan Merriam

A Just Reckoning (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Slicing into the poisonous underbelly of the global sex trade, prize-winning investigative journalist Tess Alexander finds herself catapulted into an unspeakable world that she barely knew existed. It also puts a target on her back.

Driven by a tragedy in her own past to hunt down and expose the worst of human corruption and brutality, this isn't the first time Tess's work has put her in danger-but this new investigation puts her in far worse peril than anything she's faced before. It begins after she meets Katia Voitenko, who as a small child living along the Black Sea coast of Crimea was kidnapped and sold into decades of sex slavery. Hearing Katia's appalling story, Tess becomes determined to unmask the ruthless sociopaths behind the international sex trafficking ring that enslaved the young woman.

Her search for the ringleaders behind the conspiracy drives her thousands of miles from the safety of her northern California home to the streets and alleyways of Ukraine, Crimea, and Great Britain.

During the course of her investigation-and with the help of a collection of characters that includes a Ukrainian revolutionary, an officer with London's Metropolitan Police Department, and one of the leaders of a transnational organization dedicated to rescuing victims of the sex trade-Tess uncovers the sinister extent of the trafficking operation, and almost pays with her life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joan Merriam
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781736563212
• Artikelnr.: 61199241

Autorenporträt

It was as a graduate intern at a Sacramento CBS-affiliate television station that Joan became involved in the story that would ultimately form the basis for her full-length work of nonfiction, Little Girl Lost: A True Story of Shattered Innocence & Murder, first published in 1992. The book sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.Over the years, she has authored a number of feature articles, commentaries, profiles, and columns which have appeared in dozens of national and regional magazines and newspapers. Among them are AARP Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, Sierra Heritage, the Sacramento Bee, and Vidura: The Press Institute of India Mass Media Magazine.Joan has been the recipient of awards from the Society of Professional Journalists as well as Writer's Digest magazine for her article on a one-time homophobic father's efforts to deal with his gay son's emergence from the closet and diagnosis of--and eventual death from--AIDS, and how that father went on to become an AIDS activist. In 2021, she received an Honorable Mention from the New Millennium Awards for her article, "Whispers of a Forgotten Plague."Throughout the years, she has also been honored with dozens of awards for her civic work, including the Paul Harris Award from Rotary International for community service. An avid dog-lover--especially golden retrievers--she writes two newspaper columns on life with animals, syndicated in California and Colorado newspapers. In addition to her writing, she also teaches Communication Studies at a California community college.