The benefit of transporting these young women overseas (many underage girls) is to prevent them from surfacing on social media or any other format that may identify them. Over one million women and girls are victims of trafficking yearly worldwide. Many are exploited within our borders, but international trafficking has grown exponentially, placing young female minors at risk of abduction. In the United States 325,000 children are victims of trafficking every year. It has always been real, but with the surge in social media and public awareness it has gained our attention, which has made it more difficult to hide.

This monster is the trafficking of innocent human beings. It’s reaching into our own country, our communities. This menace isn’t isolated to distant areas where I often travel. It’s the perpetrators of a type of evil that falls into a category of its own and is growing steadily. Each day is new-a time to find water and carry it to their homes, a time to locate enough to eat for that day.Īs if that is not enough, there is a powerful enemy on the horizon that in many ways is worse than ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, or Al Shabaab. They get up each morning and there is nothing to eat, because there’s no way to store food even if they could gather enough. Most of them struggle in poverty and live day to day. I’m permitted to go where others are not because, as a doctor, I have a reason-an excuse-to be there. To stop Glover and his vile partner, she'll need to plunge deep into their motives but this means drawing ever closer to becoming another casualty of a dark, dark thirst.One of the most rewarding things I do is work with poor and underprivileged children in foreign nations. Time is running out: Zoe knows her own death will be the climax of Glover's sinister play, which has been unfolding for twenty years. Zoe's own frustration grows after another woman turns up dead and drained-and another goes missing. Forensics reveals the murder to be his work, but not his alone desperate to fulfill his sick purpose, he has taken on an equally depraved partner.

But vampirism aside, the murderer's MO is identical to that of Rod Glover - the serial killer who's been pursuing Zoe since childhood. A murderer who drinks his victim's blood? FBI profiler Zoe Bentley and Agent Tatum Gray thought they'd seen it all, but this young woman's barbaric murder is especially hard to stomach. From Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Mike Omer comes the chilling conclusion to Zoe Bentley's decades-long nightmare.

Thicker than Blood by Don Brobst