A man goes to a prostitute and pays for thirty minutes of her time. But she lets him know she's a captive, a prisoner. What should he do? Go to the police?

He would be arrested. He has committed a serious crime: paying for sex with a trafficked woman, a 'controlled' woman. Besides, the police could not free her. She would be held in a detention centre before being deported - perhaps straight back into the hands of the traffickers.

The man is Neil Chapman and the woman is Liliana Petreanu. The Slave is the story of what Neil eventually does, and what happens to Liliana as a result... and the dilemma faced by Bernard Kassin, a respectable, law-abiding older neighbour.

It's a story about sex and society, men and women, freedom and slavery, law and lawlessness, in a quiet London suburb where such things really do happen.

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I'm the author of more than forty travel guides for major publishers, and four novels - The J-Word (2009, 2011, 2018); The Slave (2013); Love (2015); and The Unknown Mrs Rosen (2020). The Unknown Mrs Rosen, published 2020, is about a former spy at the end of a secret life about which her family and carers know nothing. https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-unknown-mrs-rosen. The J-Word, about an elderly man who seeks justice in his own way after being attacked by an antisemitic gang, was published in the UK in 2009 by Snowbooks, and came out in a Kindle edition in 2011. The rights returned to me in 2018, and a new edition was published. It was very well received in the UK, had excellent reviews in the British press, and was featured at London's Jewish Book Week and the Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival. For more about The J-Word see https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-j-word The Slave, about a young 'client' who tries to free a woman from forced prostitution, was published in 2013 at Smashwords as an ebook for multiple platforms, and is also available as a paperback. https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-slave. Love, published 2015, is a story of heartbreak on the hippie trail, set in the heady atmosphere of the late Sixties. https://www.andrewsanger.com/love. To read about my novels and see what reviewers thought of them, see https://www.andrewsanger.com.

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