Debut novel, Finding Lien, explores and exposes the tragedy of child trafficking in SE Asia

Lien, an innocent village girl in Vietnam is missing. Her father Ngoc is desperate and with the help of a young Australian volunteer, overcomes his years of reluctance and writes a letter to his father, a retired American army officer.  Ngoc’s letter shocks Peter Trutch. Torn between his sense of honor towards this unknown sin and his contentedly pleasant life in Seattle with his devoted wife Catherine, he hurls himself into his past and back to a country and memories that he had left behind forty years earlier. Lien has been sold to a brothel in Cambodia and, in his search for her, Trutch confronts not only his past but a seedy, corrupt world where bad cops, pimps and the destitute, clash with courageous international prevention workers and a few honest officials. Along with Trutch, the reader will be outraged at the worldwide plague of sex trafficking.

Finding Lien is a suspenseful, powerful and well-researched narrative exploring the shocking realities of:

• The trafficking of children in Southeast Asia
• Sexual exploitation of children
• The social problems fed by poverty and ignorance in the third world
• The scourge of corruption in law enforcement and the judiciary in the third world

Finding Lien is Logan’s second book. Together with his wife, Elaine Head, he published Back to Vietnam: Tours of the Heart, a poignant memoir in 2013.  R. Bruce Logan is an armchair scholar of the cultural landscape in Southeast Asia. He and Elaine spend up to three months a year there, doing humanitarian work. Bruce is a retired US Army officer who served two tours of duty in Vietnam during the war. He lives on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.

Published by: Black Rose Writing

ISBN: 978-1-61296-690-8

Category: Suspense

Price: $16.95 US

Available from all major booksellers, Black Rose Writing, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.

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