In search of stimulating stories, I interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and sometimes used several lives to create stories, and everywhere I ventured I witnessed struggles of those whose lives are bound In Other Hands.


This revised edition now focuses only on human trafficking and prostitution.