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"The Road From Tenancingo"

3/4/2021

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       Among the most gripping books I had read in recent years were R. Bruce Logan's two novels based on his own work combating the child sex trafficking industry in Southeast Asia, "Finding Lien" and its sequel "As the Lotus Blooms."
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​ Author and advocate for victims of sex-trafficking, R. Bruce Logan
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      Despite the harrowing subject matter, both books are highly engaging page-turners, written as  fast-paced thrillers full of twists, turns, heart-gripping and heart-stopping moments that tell of daring rescues by members of anti-trafficking organizations of young girls who have been enticed or entrapped then sold to brothels, pimps, or as child brides. 
       I recently read Logan's third and equally riveting novel in the series, "The Road From Tenancingo," 
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...in which he segues from sex slavery in Southeast Asia to dive into the dark, terrifying world of the Mexican trafficking cartels where human flesh is as much a money-making commodity as marijuana, cocaine, or heroin, but more valuable: for drugs can be sold only once, but a woman or a girl can be sold over and over again.
       The novel's setting is a real place, the town of Tenancingo in the state of in Tlaxcala in south-eastern Mexico, the hub of the sex industry in Mexico and the leading supplier of female sex slaves to the United States.
      In Tenancingo forced prostitution generates a billion dollars a year. The families who own the sex trafficking businesses, passed down from generation to generation, are wealthy citizens who live in palatial homes and are well-respected by local law enforcement, judges, and their parish church. They employ a vast network of pimps, handlers and enforcers in Mexico and the United States. A girl who becomes ensnared by them is as helpless as a fly trapped in a spider's web.
     "The Road From Tenancingo" tells the story of one such girl, Juanita, a gifted17-year-old architecture student at the University of Guanajuato with a promising future who is deceived and seduced by Geraldo, a char
ismatic young pimp posing as a fellow student who is in fact a member of a powerful crime cartel. After dating Juanita for over a month, Geraldo invites her home to meet his family in Tenancingo.  To her horror, Juanita is enslaved, forced into prostitution, and becomes just another of the countless anonymous women trafficked by the cartel for sex and moved from city to city and closer to the U.S. border where, if moved across, they may never be found.
     But through her despair and her family’s anguish over their missing daughter, there is, unbeknownst to Juanita, a network of dedicated people, from a small village priest to members of Mexican and American anti-trafficking organizations, who are part of the relentless search to find this girl, with the mission of rescuing her from the ruthless criminals who have kidnapped her. 
     Like Logan's previous books, "The Road From Tenancingo" is an edge-of-your-seat page turner. Once you start the book you won't be able to put it down, and once you've finished reading it you won't be able to stop thinking about it.  
     Wish you could do something to fight the scourge of global sex-trafficking? 
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     You can. All profits from R.Bruce Logan's books are donated by the author to anti-trafficking efforts. So you can buy his books.
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     R. Bruce Logan's books are available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle.​ Here are the links:

"Finding Lien" 
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Lien-R-Bruce-Logan-ebook/dp/B01F9ETB2O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526000305&sr=8-1&keywords=finding+lien

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"As The Lotus Blooms"
https://www.amazon.com/As-Lotus-Blooms-Bruce-Logan-ebook-dp-B07HQK7SVL/dp/B07HQK7SVL/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1537728654​

"The Road From Tenancingo"

https://www.amazon.com/Road-Tenancingo-Trafficking-Book-ebook/dp/B08DHW2NMZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Road+From+Tenancingo&qid=1614908048&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
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References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenancingo_Municipality,_Tlaxcala
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