Enslaved: The Chilling Modern-Day Story of Abduction and Abuse in the Global Trafficking of Men, Women and Children

by Gordon Thomas

The chilling modern-day story of abduction and abuse in the global trafficking of men, women and children, by an award-winning investigative journalist. Gordon Thomas is the author of Journey into Madness, which is currently in film production.

Child sex rings, porn peddlers, prostitutes and children used in "snuff" movies, homeless people used as unwilling organ donors. Today, an estimated 200 million slaves continue to exist in these and many other modern manifestations all over the world - in the United States and Europe, as well as in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. In this shocking and gruesomely well-researched book, Godron Thomas reveals the horrific story of those who suffer the abuse and degradation of modern-day slaver, those who profit from it, and those who must battle against it.

Enslaved focuses on three selfless fighters in the cause against slavery and the cases that consume their lives: Earl Sanders, one of San Francisco's most experienced homicide detectives, investigates the mysterious ritual murder of a homeless man dubbed John Doe Sixty; special agent John D. O'Mallet, known as the Sting Master, engineers an elaborate sting operation to track down and capture a notorious child pornographer; and Susan Warmsley, the fiercely dedicated director of a West Coast center specialising in child disappearance cases, witnesses the terrifying ordeal of an innocent little boy who has been abused by satanists. As their stories unfold and intertwine, we travel deep into their separate hells and bear witness to the plight of the disenfranchised everywhere.

Genres: Crime

289 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Gordon Thomas (born 1933) is a Welsh author who has written more than fifty books.
Thomas was born in Wales, in a cemetery keeper's cottage where his grandmother lived. He had his first story published at nine years old in a Boy's Own Paper competition. With his father in the RAF, he traveled widely and was educated at the Cairo High School, the Maritz Brothers (in Port Elizabeth, South Africa) and, lastly, at Bedford Modern School. His first book, completed at the age of seventeen, is the story of a British spy in Russia during World War II, titled Descent Into Danger. He refused the offer of a job at a university in order to accompany a traveling fair for a year: he used those experiences for his novel, Bed of Nails. Since then his books have been published worldwide. He has been a foreign correspondent beginning with the Suez Crisis and ending with the first Gulf War. He was a BBC writer/producer for three flagship BBC programmes: Man Alive, Tomorrow's World and Horizon.

He is a regular contributor to Facta, the respected monthly Japanese news magazine, and he lectures widely on the secret world of intelligence. He also provides expert analysis on intelligence for US and European television and radio programs.His book Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors became a major documentary for Channel Four that he wrote and narrated: The Spy Machine. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s main personnel. The documentary was co-produced by Open Media and Israfilm.

Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors has so far been published in 16 languages. A source for this book was Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence agent, and legendary Israeli spy Rafi Eitan. According to Charles Foster in Contemporary Review: "Writers who know their place are few and far between: fortunately Mr Thomas is one of them. By keeping to his place as a tremendous storyteller without a preacher's pretensions, he has put his book amongst the important chronicles of the state of Israel."