As the novel opens, she's a police detective in the child sexual abuse department, a judo expert and able to take care of herself. She cannot put her past behind her and finds that vigilantism is often more effective then the justice system. The chapters alternate between the present, her quest to find the sister she lost on the container ship, and her past, from being sold by her parents in Thailand, to the abuse she faced on the container ship, to that of her guardian. Her goal over the years has been singular: to find her sister.. It leads her to many dead ends, some dead bad guys, but eventually she finds answers in Bangkok. She is not a nice cop but her story I found interesting (Eisler has not lots of research on trafficking), scary and compelling. There's a certain kind of pleasure in seeing bad guys get what they deserve even if it's not in a courtroom.
A daily journal of our lives (begun in October 2010), in photos (many taken by my wife, Evie) and words, mostly from our home on Chautauqua Lake, in Western New York, where my wife Evie and I live, after my having retired from teaching English for forty-five years in Hawaii, Turkey, and Ohio. We have three children, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson, as you will notice if you follow my blog since we often travel to visit them. Photo from our porch taken on 11/03/2024 at 7:07 AM
Friday, January 27, 2017
LIVIA LONE: BARRY EISLER
As the novel opens, she's a police detective in the child sexual abuse department, a judo expert and able to take care of herself. She cannot put her past behind her and finds that vigilantism is often more effective then the justice system. The chapters alternate between the present, her quest to find the sister she lost on the container ship, and her past, from being sold by her parents in Thailand, to the abuse she faced on the container ship, to that of her guardian. Her goal over the years has been singular: to find her sister.. It leads her to many dead ends, some dead bad guys, but eventually she finds answers in Bangkok. She is not a nice cop but her story I found interesting (Eisler has not lots of research on trafficking), scary and compelling. There's a certain kind of pleasure in seeing bad guys get what they deserve even if it's not in a courtroom.
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