Dirty Commodities

Dirty Commodities: Tricked, Trapped, and Terrified, is a contemporary novel of life inside the horror of the human/sex-trafficking pipeline. The University of New Mexico Professor Angelica Suarez, a middle-aged white female, is kidnapped by notorious human-trafficker Moldovan oligarch Andrei Profir as leverage against intense American and Moldovan political pressure to cease his attempts to exploit the tide of Ukrainian woman and children refugees fleeing the Russian war against Ukraine. Dirty Commodities: Tricked, Trapped, and Terrified offers a first-person experience of a minute-by-minute, perilous journey that takes Suarez and a terrified group of women and children overland to a port on the Black Sea, and then by freighter to Libya, Gibraltar, and finally Haiti. Spirited out of the political chaos in Haiti by a nefarious, Spanish-speaking captor, she lands in El Salvador where her ordeal begins anew – this time in the western hemisphere. Through a network of cartel-operated airfields, she eventually arrives in the brutal hands of Sinaloa Cartel leader, “El Mojito.”​

Journey with the authors through tense encounters between Suarez and the Cartel onto the cross-border reservation of the Tohono O’odham Tribe and the ensuing involvement of Southern Arizonans, the U.S. Border Patrol, Homeland Security, and the President and Department of State of the United States to secure the release of a traumatized Suarez, all against the backdrop of the Covid pandemic and the Soviet war on Ukraine. 

Dirty Commodities: Tricked, Trapped, and Terrified is fiction, but the ex-traffickers’ pipeline is real. This novel elevates political awareness of this fastest-growing illegal international industry, generating thirty-two-billion dollars in profits annually, to the same level of humanitarian crises and security catastrophe as others precipitated by current global mass migrations.