In this dark, far-reaching novel, Hedley Harrison plunges the reader into the terrifying world of human trafficking.

Julie Kershawe's successful career in the UK Border Agency has come to a sudden and ignominious end, and at her ex-boss's prompting she decides to start her life over in Melbourne, Australia. Even there, however, she cannot escape her past and quickly finds herself co-opted into an intergovernmental attempt to uncover a human-trafficking cartel. This one is unusual, however—the 'human commodities' here are not coerced workers or sexually exploited women but 'high-end' trophy brides for China's new business elite.

At once gripping thriller and heart-rending exposé, this is an important novel dealing with one of the greatest scourges of our contemporary world.

Hedley Harrison graduated from London University and joined a major oil company progressing to senior management and seeing service in the UK, Nigeria, Australia and the North Sea. His first novel, Coup (ISBN: 9781846246029) was published by Book Guild in 2011, followed by his second, Disunited States (ISBN: 9781846248382) in 2013. He lives in Charminster, Dorchester.