Publisher's Synopsis
Cruise Traffic is the powerful third book in the Cruise Ship Crime Investigators series. CSCI find themselves fighting to save women who have no idea they are about to be trafficked and sold for sex.
Commander Kieron Philips is called back from his recuperation in Bequia, which could so easily have slipped into a second retirement. The problem with the three 'King' ships in the Mediterranean appears simple, and one ideal for Kieron to reboot on. CSCI does not normally get engaged to deal with trivial crimes, and it soon transpires a more sinister crime is behind their engagement. The ships are being used to traffic humans, who join as crew in Albania and leave at cities like Barcelona or Malaga. As Hunter attempts to confront the executives over the real motives of CSCI's engagement, he finds the two managers they report two have been released and his agency's service is no longer required. Someone on the inside must be involved, but a group of women joining in Albania cannot be ignored. With the help of the ship's magician, they make the next intake of women disappear and leave a trail of blood behind them. They have now upset a gang that has zero respect for human life, and who is ensuring that Interpol knows they have kidnapped the women. Following extensive work on the screenplay and movie interest in this story, the original third book, Laundry Wars, got rewritten. Cruise Traffic is a complete reworking of CS Laundry Wars. Following extensive movie development, the story anchors around a criminal ring of sex traffickers using ships to trickle a constant feed of new women from Albania to the big coastal cities of the Mediterranean.
