A crime so Monstrous: A shocking expose of modern day sex slavery, human trafficking and urban child markets

Two hundred years after Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, more people than ever before languish in slavery, forced tow work, under threat of violence, for no pay. In Africa, hundreds of thousands are considered chattel, while on the Indian subcontinent millions languish in generational debt bondage. Across the globe, women and children, sold for sex and labour, are already the second most lucrative commodity for organised crime. Through eviscerating narrative, A Crime So Monstrous paints a stark picture of modern-day slavery. Skinner infiltrates trafficking networks and slave sales on four continents, exposing a modern flesh trade never before portrayed in such vivid detail. From mega-harems in Dubai to illicit brothels in Bucharest, from slave quarries in India to urban child markets in Haiti, he explores the underside of a dozen countries and lays bare a parallel universe where lives are bought, sold, used and discarded. he travels to war zones and immerses readers in the political and flesh-and-blood battles on the frontlines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement. The personal stories related here are heartbreaking but the midst of tragedy Skinner also discovers a quiet dignity that leads some to resist and aspire to freedom. He bears witness for them and for the millions that are held in the shadows-all victims or survivors of the greatest human-rights challenge facing our generation.