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Behind on mortgage payments, freelance writer, Josh Radley receives a tip about a potential block-buster story. Hoping to scoop the competition and improve his finances, he cancels his scheduled cancer treatment and rushes to an isolated site on Vancouver Island. An old freighter, beached in a storm, is found with a human cargo bound for enslavement in brothels, farms, and factories. The ship also contains a cache of explosives and drugs. The wretched cargo includes Chandi, a tribal girl from Pakistan known to Josh and his wife.
Before these victims can be processed, the gang responsible swoops in, overwhelms the police, and escapes with both their most valuable human cargo and their explosives.Determined to find the lost girls and expose modern slave traders, Josh ignores violent threats from Chaudari, the leader of this smuggling enterprise. He plunges into the murky world of human trafficking in Seattle and Vancouver while continuing to avoid cancer treatment. His investigations also uncover a catastrophic terrorist plot. Will he be able to save Chandi and the other young women and help authorities defuse the terrorist plot? But on a personal level, will the chances he is taking endanger his own life and that of his wife Stephanie?
Before these victims can be processed, the gang responsible swoops in, overwhelms the police, and escapes with both their most valuable human cargo and their explosives.Determined to find the lost girls and expose modern slave traders, Josh ignores violent threats from Chaudari, the leader of this smuggling enterprise. He plunges into the murky world of human trafficking in Seattle and Vancouver while continuing to avoid cancer treatment. His investigations also uncover a catastrophic terrorist plot. Will he be able to save Chandi and the other young women and help authorities defuse the terrorist plot? But on a personal level, will the chances he is taking endanger his own life and that of his wife Stephanie?
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Although somewhat shorter than my other two books in this trilogy, Rust Bucket took at least three years to write. I sought to inject fast-paced suspense into a realistic story about one of the great evils of our time, human trafficking. It is hard to imagine, but true, that at an estimated 27,000,000 there are more people enslaved today than at the height of the African slave trade. These human victims, with sensibilities like yours and mine, are forced work in brothels, farms and even factories and other businesses. I also touched on this horrific trade in the second book in this trilogy, Captives of Minara.
In the global competition for market-share, businesses are tempted to abandon ethics in order to reduce costs. Some of them resort to either paying workers starvation wages or, in the case of slaves, no wages at all. Criminal elements have also rushed to embrace human trafficking, driven by the reality that they can sell a human product, unlike drugs, again and again. In enslaved women and men they have a product that keeps on giving.
The germ ofan idea came from a true event, a freighter smuggling Sri Lankan immigrants tothe west coast of Canada. In this case I imagined an old freighter--a rust bucket--beached on a wild and inaccessible section of Vancouver Island, a coast that has seen myriad wrecks through the years.
Each of the books in this trilogy are stand-alone stories, although the characters continue. The Lightning File is set in Southern Ontario where a cadre of terrorists develop a plan to attack four targets that will send a devastating message to the US from Canadian soil.
In Captivesof Minara, journalist Josh Radley travels to Pakistan where he grew up to write about an archaeological discovery that may re-write the history of the Indus civilization. While there he stumbles on a gang engaged in both human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs, artifacts, and munitions.
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In the global competition for market-share, businesses are tempted to abandon ethics in order to reduce costs. Some of them resort to either paying workers starvation wages or, in the case of slaves, no wages at all. Criminal elements have also rushed to embrace human trafficking, driven by the reality that they can sell a human product, unlike drugs, again and again. In enslaved women and men they have a product that keeps on giving.
The germ ofan idea came from a true event, a freighter smuggling Sri Lankan immigrants tothe west coast of Canada. In this case I imagined an old freighter--a rust bucket--beached on a wild and inaccessible section of Vancouver Island, a coast that has seen myriad wrecks through the years.
Each of the books in this trilogy are stand-alone stories, although the characters continue. The Lightning File is set in Southern Ontario where a cadre of terrorists develop a plan to attack four targets that will send a devastating message to the US from Canadian soil.
In Captivesof Minara, journalist Josh Radley travels to Pakistan where he grew up to write about an archaeological discovery that may re-write the history of the Indus civilization. While there he stumbles on a gang engaged in both human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs, artifacts, and munitions.
Shipwrecked Cargo Ship Contains DeadlyPayload
TheStory Reporter Josh Radley, rushes to the site of a beached freighter containing a human cargo bound for enslavement in brothels, farms, and factories. Before these victims can be processed by Canadian authorities, the gang responsible swoops in to recover their cargo.
Josh ignores his urgent need for cancer treatment and plunges into the murky world of human trafficking in Vancouver and Seattle. He also uncovers a catastrophic terrorist plot while fending off violent threats from Chaudari, the leader of this smuggling enterprise. Will he be able to rescue the women and help authorities defuse the terrorist plot?
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·Authentic...vivid descriptions...a real page turner (Peggy Dymond Leavey, prolific author and multiple award winning writer.)
·It held my interest so much that I read it in three days. (Doris Goheen, retired school teacher)
·Fastpaced thriller....grabs the reader's attention and neatly delivers the reader--breathless--on the final page. (Felicity Sidnell, author and co-host of literary radio show)
·Fascinating...Difficult to put down.(Margaret Bart)
TheStory Reporter Josh Radley, rushes to the site of a beached freighter containing a human cargo bound for enslavement in brothels, farms, and factories. Before these victims can be processed by Canadian authorities, the gang responsible swoops in to recover their cargo.
Josh ignores his urgent need for cancer treatment and plunges into the murky world of human trafficking in Vancouver and Seattle. He also uncovers a catastrophic terrorist plot while fending off violent threats from Chaudari, the leader of this smuggling enterprise. Will he be able to rescue the women and help authorities defuse the terrorist plot?
What Readers Are Saying
·Authentic...vivid descriptions...a real page turner (Peggy Dymond Leavey, prolific author and multiple award winning writer.)
·It held my interest so much that I read it in three days. (Doris Goheen, retired school teacher)
·Fastpaced thriller....grabs the reader's attention and neatly delivers the reader--breathless--on the final page. (Felicity Sidnell, author and co-host of literary radio show)
·Fascinating...Difficult to put down.(Margaret Bart)
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1542855667
- ISBN 13 9781542855662
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages254
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