Introduction

When wealthy Pamela Jordaan hires PI Jade de Jong as a bodyguard after her husband Terrance disappears, Jade thinks keeping an eye on this anxious wife will be an easy way to earn some cash. But when a determined shooter nearly kills them both and Jade finds Terrance horrifically tortured and barely alive, she realizes that she has been drawn into a wicked game.
 
At the same time, her relationship with police superintendent David Patel is on the rocks, and things only get more complicated when his son is kidnapped and his wife is blackmailed. It soon becomes clear that the kidnapping and the attempted killings of Pamela and her husband are tied to a human trafficking ring that stretches from Johannesburg to London.

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Detective Constable Edmonds saw the running man just a half-second before the unmarked car she was travelling in hit him.

A slightly built man, dark-skinned and dark-clad in a tight-fitting jersey and a beanie. He burst out of the shadows behind a flyover and sprinted straight across the A12, fists pumping, head bowed against the gusting rain, splashing through the puddles on the tarmac as if he were running for his life. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

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1. Human traffickers exercise physical violence as well as psychological domination over their prisoners – which means their victims often refuse to turn witness. If you could write the laws in your state, what processes would you put into place to protect women who are prepared to give evidence against their traffickers?


2. One of the biggest problems for trafficked women is their perception of police – in their home countries, police are often violent, corrupt, and untrustworthy, and this prevents them from seeking help in the countries where they are trafficked to. What is your perception of the police in the countries that you have been to, or read about? In what countries do you feel the police are most, and least, trustworthy?


3. In Stolen Lives, a number of characters turn out to be different from the way they are presented at the start – good characters turn out to be evil, and vice-versa. Discuss which character surprised you the most this way, and why.


4. Pamela claims that Terence’s strip club is an upmarket place where patrons can enjoy good, clean fun. Do you think this is a realistic perception? What does it say about Pamela herself?


5. One of the characters in Stolen Lives is under the spell of her lover, to such an extent that she tries to protect him even after he has brutally beaten her. Do you know anyone who has stayed in an abusive relationship and if so, what do you think made it impossible for them to leave?


6. At the end of the book, Jade finds out more about a mother that she never knew, and in the process, she also learns more about herself. Discuss the concept of whether a predisposition to violence is genetic, hereditary, or both.

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