China Wife

In this dark, far-reaching novel, Hedley Harrison plunges the reader into the terrifying world of human trafficking.Julie Kershawe's successful career in the UK Border Agency has come to a sudden and ignominious end, and at her ex-boss's prompting she decides to start her life over in Melbourne, Australia. Even there, however, she cannot escape her past and quickly finds herself co-opted into an intergovernmental attempt to uncover a human-trafficking cartel. This one is unusual, however—the 'human commodities' here are not coerced workers or sexually exploited women but 'high-end' trophy brides for China's new business elite.At once gripping thriller and heart-rending exposé, this is an important novel dealing with one of the greatest scourges of our contemporary world.Hedley Harrison graduated from London University and joined a major oil company progressing to senior management and seeing service in the UK, Nigeria, Australia and the North Sea...