num_pages: 371
description: 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 the subcontinent's human traffickers. There his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the trade in human flesh and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. Learning of the fate of Ahalya and Sita Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals.
language: English
title: A Walk Across the Sun
publisher: SilverOak