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Days in Babylon
Sylvia is where she always wanted to be in life, wife of Sir Peter Porteous, (affluent Chief Executive of a successful transport company) She has faced many challenges in getting to this point, but her meeting with charismatic truck-driver Patrick triggers the most demanding ones she's ever experienced.
She becomes caught up in his network, which is aimed at rescuing trafficked women and challenging those profiting from the business. At one stage she transforms herself from the elegant “Lady Porteous” into a shabby truck-driver crossing Europe to and from Zagreb with Patrick. He is seeking out information about the traffickers.
All her resources of courage and determination are needed to get her through the challenge of rescuing Patrick when he is kidnapped in Zagreb and hidden in a mental institution. When she succeeds and they drive back London together, she finds that they are attracted to each other. But Patrick insists that their feelings must come second to the mission to discover and expose the key people who are developing and profiting from the sex trafficking industry.
Greater challenges come when she is back in London wanting to pursue her investigations while carrying on with her normal life. She once again finds unexpected resources in herself, and an unfamiliar satisfaction as she succeeds in what she is called on to do in her own small arena.
Her efforts to make a difference, while leading her into dangerous situations including the kidnapping of her daughter Alice and her own imprisonment in a City loft, give a new meaning to her life and a respect for her own abilities. Finally they bring her closer to her husband Peter.
She becomes caught up in his network, which is aimed at rescuing trafficked women and challenging those profiting from the business. At one stage she transforms herself from the elegant “Lady Porteous” into a shabby truck-driver crossing Europe to and from Zagreb with Patrick. He is seeking out information about the traffickers.
All her resources of courage and determination are needed to get her through the challenge of rescuing Patrick when he is kidnapped in Zagreb and hidden in a mental institution. When she succeeds and they drive back London together, she finds that they are attracted to each other. But Patrick insists that their feelings must come second to the mission to discover and expose the key people who are developing and profiting from the sex trafficking industry.
Greater challenges come when she is back in London wanting to pursue her investigations while carrying on with her normal life. She once again finds unexpected resources in herself, and an unfamiliar satisfaction as she succeeds in what she is called on to do in her own small arena.
Her efforts to make a difference, while leading her into dangerous situations including the kidnapping of her daughter Alice and her own imprisonment in a City loft, give a new meaning to her life and a respect for her own abilities. Finally they bring her closer to her husband Peter.
269 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2014
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