MoscowTraffic Format: TradePaperback

Russian History told as a romance wrapped in a crime thriller.

Moscow Traffic is an international thriller that exposes the roots of a vast Russian human trafficking network through the eyes of Seattle forensic psychologist Peter Stone as he travels to Moscow in search of his missing lover, opera star Caroline Luke. Her empty coffin and passport have arrived at SeaTac airport with Russian documents declaring her dead. Without a body, neither American or Russian police will investigate further, which forces his decision to leave his comfortable life in Seattle and plunge head-first into the perverse world of international organized crime and human trafficking. On his hero’s journey, Peter crosses paths with victims, perpetrators, buyers, sellers, saints, ghosts and thieves as the borders of morality and reality blur in a society tormented by its past and fearful of the future. Peter finds himself spinning out of control as he confronts the mystery of his own family’s twisted past and its role in the crime that has caused so much pain to Caroline. In a  world where nothing is what it seems and only the most adaptable survive, Peter and Caroline must undergo the unearthing of long-hidden secrets that threatens their future.

Dr. Juliette Engel was the first American doctor to fly over the Iron Curtain to Moscow where she visited Soviet maternity hospitals and abortion clinics. She was so appalled by the suffering she witnessed that she sold her Seattle medical practice in 1990 and founded MiraMed Institute, determined to improve health care and human rights for women and children in the USSR. While providing aid to infant hospitals she uncovered the crime of sexual trafficking in children. Dr. Engel moved to Moscow in 1999 and founded the Angel Coalition to combat human trafficking.