Investigative reporter Clay "call me Thorne" Hawthorne takes on the multi-billion-dollar industry of human trafficking that steals for profit the freedom of millions of victims. In Kentucky arrests of restaurant and other business owners using forced labor in inhumane conditions are common. But Thorne wants to expose the bigger business of sex trafficking that coerces hundreds of women and girls into a modern form of slavery. His inquiries lead him into conflict with a racist motorcycle gang as he focuses on erotic massage ...
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Investigative reporter Clay "call me Thorne" Hawthorne takes on the multi-billion-dollar industry of human trafficking that steals for profit the freedom of millions of victims. In Kentucky arrests of restaurant and other business owners using forced labor in inhumane conditions are common. But Thorne wants to expose the bigger business of sex trafficking that coerces hundreds of women and girls into a modern form of slavery. His inquiries lead him into conflict with a racist motorcycle gang as he focuses on erotic massage parlors, over ten thousand in the U.S. and hundreds in Kentucky. Thorne discovers that voluntary and involuntary prostitution, from high-class escort services to local rings in small towns to the strings of massage parlors, is "hiding in plain sight." But exposing the extensive criminal networks that operate strings of parlors proves difficult and dangerous. He enlists the reluctant help of a former escort, a beautiful, mysterious woman with a past she wants to forget. Meanwhile, white nationalist militias and Nazis are recruiting in Kentucky and prompted by their deluded conspiracy theories, have targeted his newspaper, the Bluegrass Herald as an enemy of white supremacy.
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