Jörmungandr: A Study in Global Human Trafficking and Abolitionist Strategy

by Adam Zarnowski

This book examines a clandestine human-trafficking network operating across international borders, enabled by loopholes in enforcement, complicity in governance, and the exploitation of the most vulnerable.

461 pages, Paperback

Published July 21, 2025

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author, as an ex-FBI officer dedicated to the fight against human trafficking, is eminently well qualified to write on the subject, but this self-published volume suffers from morbid obesity: it is probably 500,000 words. Finding the nuggets of information and insight under the layers of garrulous fat is more work than this reader was ready to do.

[Marcy Novak · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the overall information presented was interesting, there was just way too much. Mostly too much data, but also too many areas that had their own deep dives. Historical to modern human trafficking, as well as all of the offshoots from that history, and then all the connections coming from that; it was just too much. If this had been edited down, and condensed into maybe 1/3 of its' current form, I probably would give it 3 to 4 stars. The overall information would be so much more accessible, and I think there is a lot of good work hidden amongst it all.