Desperate Measures
She put her life on the line for her family. But now it’s time to pay the price.
All Malee wanted was a better life for herself and her son. And the only way she could make that happen was to sell her body, to exchange sex for money.
But her plan falls apart when she arrives in London at the start of the Covid pandemic.
She risks everything to support her family - but as the country goes into lockdown she runs into Russian gangsters who have their own plans for her.
Before long the Russians are forcing her to work for them. If she refuses, they’ll kill her. Now it’s not about working for a better life - now it’s a matter of survival.
Desperate Measures is very different from Stephen Leather's regular standalone thrillers and his Sunday Times bestselling Dan "Spider" Shepherd series. It is written in the first person and contains harrowing details of what it is like to be trafficked in modern-day Britain.
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Stephen Leather
Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan “Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.
He is one of the country’s most successful eBook authors and his eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. In 2011 alone he sold more than 500,000 eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. Born in Manchester, he began writing full time in 1992.
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