In this investigative narrative, Rome-based American reporter Barbie Latza Nadeau unravels the dirty money driving migration and human trafficking. Taking advantage of desperate people’s tragic destiny has created a global market worth billions of dollars.
There are more than 280 million people on the move around the world at any given moment, according to the International Organization of Migration. People look away when they see desperate people in boats or trudging through the jungle, but every body—every potential for the ownership of another’s body—is of malicious value to the corrupt. From sex trafficking to drug mules to child laborers in the fashion industry, desperate people generate billions of dollars exploiting others. Each death is a loss that may conjure mild compassion from the public, but it absolutely rattles the multi-billion-dollar chain of human exploitation. This chain of unmeasurable length has infiltrated the criminal underworld and reached the highest echelons of respectable institutions, from the Italian mafia to the cartels, from banks to governments.
No other multi-billion-dollar transnational enterprise is less understood than the trafficking of humans and their organs. Every Body Counts tells the stories of those who navigate a world where lives don’t matter, but where every body counts.
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France (Grasset Edition)
Germany (Hanser Blau)
Netherlands (Balans)
Spain (Seix Barral)
UK (Bonnier Books)
