Precious Cargo
“Trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, a lucrative industry making an estimated $99 billion a year. At least 20.9 million adults and children are bought and sold worldwide into commercial sexual servitude, forced labor and bonded labor. About 2 million children are exploited every year in the global commercial sex trade. 54% of trafficking victims are trafficked for sexual exploitation with 96% being women and girls.”
PRECIOUS CARGO seeks to bring awareness to sex-trafficking in the US, and how the trucking industry is involved as Jojo explores this darker side of trucking. A darker side of humanity.
Synopsis:
After helping a frightened girl who flagged down their Kenworth in Austin and delivering her to safety, trucker Jojo Boudreaux and co-driver Gator Natoli believe that’s the end of it. Until they find her again in Oklahoma City, and this time she doesn’t want to be saved.
They soon find themselves pulled into dangerous territory. Somali Mafia territory. A place where powerful people manipulate a hundred-billion-dollar industry of prostitution, drugs and international sex trafficking. A place where innocence dies at a cost no one should have to pay.
It’s not long before Jojo is drawn in deeper, fighting for her own life in this violent world of corruption, abuse, and addiction. Armed with her wits and will, the only way to survive is to trust others, accept help from unexpected places, and never, ever give up hope.
In the Cargo Series, Linda introduces tenacious trucker Jojo Boudreaux and a cast of characters whose adventures are directly influenced by the stories of real truckers Linda has interviewed…and possibly pieces of her own life.
Publish Date: March 22, 2018