Publisher's Synopsis
In 2012, after ten years working as a journalist, Matt had an experience in Brazil which changed his life. On a road trip with a friend in a remote rural part of the country, he saw a girl standing on the side of the motorway, who they discovered was just 11 and selling her body to truck drivers. Realising he had stumbled upon a hidden and unreported scandal, he gave up his staff job and moved with his wife and young son to Brazil with the intention of documenting this tragedy. However, he soon became involved in the lives of the girls - taking one girl he rescued from a brothel back home to live with his family, then adopting another 12-year-old - and spent the next ten years setting up safe houses along the motorway, the BR-116, which he discovered was the worst road in the world for child prostitution. A fast-paced and gripping story, full of drama, corruption, tragedy, setbacks and victories.
