Sometimes the face of evil is much more complex than we can imagine.On a dark night in November 2011, seven Somali pirates hijack an American sailing yacht in the Indian Ocean, taking its occupants hostage—eighteen-year-old Quentin Parker and his father, Daniel, who conceived of the around-the-world adventure to save his troubled son. After a long standoff with the US Navy, the negotiations break down and the pirates do the unthinkable, shooting both hostages.Three people are deeply affected by the shooting: Paul Derrick, the hostage negotiator whose failure to secure the release of the Parkers reminds him of a more personal tragedy long ago and whose sister Megan becomes the attorney for the accused; Vanessa Parker, an American doctor who flew the ransom money ten thousand miles only to see her family shattered; and Ismail, the pirate fingered by his compatriots as the triggerman. After questioning Ismail, Derrick is convinced that there...

A beloved American company with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose.In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women. Amid the rubble, a bystander captures a heart-stopping image—a teenage girl lying in the dirt, her body broken by a multi-story fall, and over her mouth a mask of fabric bearing the label of one of America's largest retailers, Presto Omnishops Corporation. When the photo goes viral, it fans the flames of a decades-old controversy about sweatshops, labour rights and the ethics of globalization.A year later, in Washington, DC, Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist for The Washington Post, receives an anonymous summons from a corporate whistleblower promising information about Presto. There, to Griswold's astonishment, he meets Cameron Alexander, Presto's...

Zoe Fleming is an American attorney working with an NGO devoted to combatting child sexual assault in Lusaka, Zambia. When an adolescent girl is raped in the dark of night and delivered by strangers to the hospital, Zoe's organization is called in to help. Working alongside Zambian police officer Joseph Kabuta, Zoe learns that the girl's assailant was not a street kid or a pedophile but the son of a powerful industrialist with deep ties to the Zambian government. As the prosecution against him grinds forward, hampered by systemic corruption and bureaucratic inertia, Zoe and Joseph's search for the truth takes them from Lusaka's roughest neighborhoods to the wild waters of Victoria Falls, to the AIDS-ridden streets of Johannesburg and the splendour of Cape Town. As the rape trial builds to a climax and sends shockwaves through Zambian society, Zoe must radically reshape her assumptions about love, loyalty, family— and, especially, the meaning of justice.

Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld—and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade.When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. They are abducted almost immediately and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, beginning a hellish descent into the bowels of the sex trade.Halfway across the world, Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crisis—and makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical working in India for an NGO that prosecutes...