Intense story. Ripped from the headlines in a lot of ways. Kind of depressing to know that man's inhumanity to man will just continue and take on new faces, with more scum-of-the-earth considering it their right to dehumanize and profit from the misery of others, and then when their prisoners rebel and reduce their profit, label them "ungrateful."
Two girls manage to escape a "school" where they are trained to be toys for the rich and perverted. One of them dies. The other is unwilling to trust anyone, especially the authorities, because the System has let her down so many times. Enter Eve Dallas, who knows what these girls have gone through, personally. The hunt for clues, to find the witness, to find those responsible, and the horror and righteous wrath as Eve and her allies put the picture together and realize just what is being done as a business, the cold cruelty inflicted on the young and innocent ... enthralling as always.
Read this one in two days, when I had lots of deadlines to meet and a book launch of my own to somehow stumble through. The Dallas and Roarke books are my treats to myself. Thanks, muchly, for an intense escape, just for a little while -- and the certainty that justice will triumph after all.
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