Thriller

Although I knew about sex trafficking in general, this book made it more real and as detailed as can be without crossing the line. The author also gave us a descriptive travelogue through India, Paris and the Eastern United States listing almost every street Thomas Clarke traveled.
It was also interesting to see a love story from a guy's point of view written by a man in Thomas' love for Priya.
Besides the organizations the author mentioned in his Afterword, another organization that is fighting trafficking is Christine Caine's A21. ( )

I found this a very good book, delving into a topic that I really wasn't that familiar with.
The story starts in India, where two girls, Ahalya, 17 yr and her sister Sita, 15yr, go from a happy, somewhat privileged life, to one of compete uncertainty in an instant. They are walking on the beach with their parents, when a Tsunami, sweeps across their village. Miraculously, they survive, but their family and most of their village does not. They try to get to their school, which is some distance away, when almost immediately, they are abducted and taken to a brothel in Mumbai. Both being virgins, they fetch a high price when sold to the brothel. Across the world in DC, Thomas Clark, once a rising legal star, is watching his world crumble. When the big case he's been working on comes down opposite than they were working on, he gets thrown under the bus and is told to take a temporary leave, and his wife has left him. After witnessing an abduction of a little girl, and finding out how prevalent sex trafficking is, Thomas joins a group fighting human trafficking and heads to India. It doesn't take long for Thomas to get thoroughly involved. Meanwhile Ahalya has been sold to the highest bidder, and tries to withdraw the best she can in order to survive, hopes this will spare her sister. It doesn't and she is taken away. The story is told from the three points of view, it's fast paced and eye opening. ( )

The story of modern day slavery and human trafficking is one that deserves to be told and in A Walk Across The Sun author Corban Addison sets out to write a fictionalized account of two sisters kidnapped and forced into the sordid world of underage prostitution. As a work of fiction, it's understandable that the author wants to make it an entertaining read. But in my opinion this book often read more like a spy thriller than a serious piece of fiction. To give Addison credit, it's a real page turner, no doubt about that. But far too much of the plot was just plain implausible, and it left me feeling a disappointed. I felt this book could have been a lot more if it had been a bit more real. ( )

Cuando un tsunami arrasa el pueblo de la costa india donde viven, Alhaya Ghai, de diecisiete años, y su hermana Sita, de quince, se quedan huérfanas y sin hogar. Desamparadas, su única esperanza es refugiarse en su colegio, a kilómetros de allí. Pero nada más emprender el viaje, las jóvenes son raptadas, vendidas al propietario de un burdel de la capital, Mumbai, y separadas. Así empieza el descenso hacia los abismos del tráfico internacional del sexo y de seres humanos, un escalofriante submundo donde la inocencia de una niña es el bien más preciado.