Hellgate
by By Fairstein, Linda A.
Category: Fiction , Thrillers , General

Head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for decades, Linda Fairstein is America's   most visible legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence-which is why she writes some of the most   compelling crime thrillers of our time and why her Alexandra Cooper series has been topping bestseller list for more   than a decade. Fans turn to Fairstein for ripped-from-the-headline crimes, cutting-edge investigations, and   vindication for victims. Linda Fairstein brings readers inside a world of which they can't get enough, but one they   hope to never see in real life. And for her twelfth novel, Fairstein takes Alexandra Cooper inside a world   she'd rather not see. New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind-  the-scenes deals. In Hell Gate, Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has   contraband cargo-human cargo-and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen   from grace. When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman's lover have the same rose   tattoo-the brand of a "snakehead", a master of a human trafficking operation-it dawns on her that these cases   aren't as unrelated as they seem and that the entire political landscape of New York City could hang in the balance of   her investigation. As Alex looks on at the nameless victims in the morgue, she realizes she's looking at the present-  day face of New York's long, dark tradition of human trafficking-a tradition that began hundreds of years ago with   slave trade from Africa, now a multimillion-dollar industry that will stop at no cost, even if that cost is Alex's   life.    Watch a Video