Book Review: The Stealing Night
Author: Nella Key
Date: 2022
Quote: "Jane...was homecoming queen too before someone took her on her way home from the dance."
In this short book Nella Key tries to imagine how humans can get involved in the crime of human trafficking. In a team of three friends working on what's about to be exposed as a trafficking case, Jess sincerely wants to stop the crime, Jack is secretly the kingpin of the local criminal activity, and Joe, who used to be married to Jess and has always been Jack's best friend, is caught in between them.
People like the three J's don't let themselves notice a lot about what's going on. They drink a lot. To Jack and Joe-as-his-secret-partner-in-crime, selling teenagers as sex slaves is "business. To Jess and Joe-as-her-partner-in-detective-work, obsessive focus on clues is a way of distracting themselves from the human feelings seething around them. Jess and Joe narrate the story in a terse, detached way that may be hard to relate to, but is probably true to life.
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