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Description edit
Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade. When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ahalya Ghai: A 17 year old orphan that was abducted by human traffickers and thrust into a hidden world of sexual violence and illicit commerce.
- Sita Ghai: A 15 year old girl, sister to Ahalya Ghai who also became an orphan and homeless after the tsunami.She was also abducted along with her older sister by human trafficker.
- Thomas Clarke: Washington, D.C., attorney who pursue a pro bono sabbatical in India with an NGO (CASE) that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers.
- Priya: Wife of Thomas Clarke who is also an Indian
- Naresh Ghai: Father of Ahalya & Sita Ghai
- Ambini: Mother of Ahalya & Sita Ghai
- Tera Atwood: Attorney who works at the same firm as Thomas
- Dinesh: A friend of Thomas in Bombay
- Suchir: Runs the brothel where Ahalya and Sita were taken
- Prasad: Born at the brothel; his father is Suchir
- Navin: He bought Sita from the Suchir
- Max Junger: Managing partner at law firm where Thomas had worked
- Wharton Group: The largest litigation group in the history of Thomas's law firm; the Wharton Co was a coal production company with abundant resources; they tried to cut costs resulting in the death of 91 school children
- Jeff Greer: Director of the Mumbai field office of CASE
- Alfonso Romero: special agent
- Ted: Thomas's brother
- Li: Add a description of this character.
- Inspector Khan: Indian non-corruptable constable in Mumbai
- Elsie
- Ivanna
- Rohit: Member of the field team appointed by Greer and Nigel
- Adrian
- Prakash: Middle man in the sex trafficking business; he and Vetri drove them to the train station; part of the trafficking business
- Igor: Driver and participant in trafficking
- Nigel McPhee: Director of field operations
- Judge Hirschel: Judge proceeding over the Wharton case
- Anita Chopra: Rehabilitation specialist assigned to provide support to the minor girls
- Surya Patel: Pyiya's father
- Mira: Was brought in to assist with the raid; Indian
- Olga
- Father Gérard
- Jean-Pierre Léon: A known expert on trafficking
- Dmitri
- Michaels
- Dev Ramachandra
- Ashley Taliaferro: CASE director of field operations
- Bhuta
- Jaya: Housekeeper for the Ghai family
- Pritchett
- Jack Barrows: CEO of Wharton Coal
- Kareena: A girl who worked at the resaurant where Sita was enslaved
- Sumeera: Was taken as a young girl; now worked brothel
- Tatiana Petrovich
- Detective Morgan: Detective that was investigating the abduction of Abby;
- Naomi: Nun/teacher at the school where Ahalya and Sita attended
- Jeremy: An old friend of Thomas's from law school
- Vikram Pillai: An accomplished violin musician; Sita was a great admirer of his
- Mohini: Daughter of Thomas and Pria; died of crib death
- Elena Clarke: Thomas's mother
- Sister Ruth: Superintendent at the ashram where Ahalya was taken aftwe the raid
- Ramesh Narayanan: After the death of their, parents he offered to help the girls get to the convent; part of the trafficking business
- Vasily
- Manuel
- DeFoe
- Kowalski
- Sundari Rai
- Mark Blake: He was the lead litigator for the firm defending Wharton Coal
- Amy: Thomas's sister-in-law; Ted's wife
- Dietrich Klein
- Darnell
- Alexi
- the Judge: Thomas's father; the Honorable a Randolph Truman Clark
- Surekha Patel
- Andrew Porter: Thomas's friend who worked at DOJ
- Elizabeth
- Samantha Penderhook: Legal Director of CASE
- Garcia
- Varuni: Kareena's sister
- Deepak: CASE field agents
- Rachel Pandolkar: Director of rehabilatation
- Vetri: He and Prakash took the girls to the train station; he accompanied Ahalya and Sita;?there they were purchased by Chakra; part of the trafficking business
- Uncle-ji: Ran the restaurant where Sita was forced to work; part of trafficking business
- Aunti-ji: Ran the restaurant where Sita was forced to work; part of trafficking business
- Ajit
- Shankar: Patron of the brothel; he was Ahalya's first
- Julia Moore
- Chako: Fat pimple face abductor that Hamesh said would take Ahalya and Sita to the convent/school; part of the trafficking business
- Kanan: Driver that was paid by Ramesh to take the girls to the convent/school; part of the trafficing business
- Natalia
- Shyam: Boy where Sita was sold and forced to do hard labor
- Eloise: a staff member ar CASE
Setting & Locations edit
- Bombay
- Paris
- India
- France
- United States
- Chennai
- Hindi
- America
- Nagpada
- Kandyland
- New York
- Atlanta
- Washington
- Fayetteville
- Goa
- Mumbai: Capitol of India
- Cambridge
- Varuni
- Golpitha
- Léon
- Bandra
- Europe
- Kovallam
- Kamathipura: The largest red light district in Bombay
- White Orchid
- England
- Ramayana
- Baba
Authors & Contributors edit
- Corban Addison (Author)
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Publication Date: 2012
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Page Count: 363
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Publication Date: 2012
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Page Count: 363
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- Dewey: 813.6
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