Find Ruby
Find Ruby
Synopsis
Star Madison escapes just after her sixteenth birthday. She disappears from South Roxbury, from Hannah Dustin High, her Girl Gang collapsed and scattered . Brienne, her classmate, her lover, herself a young genius like Star, is the only one who remains at Hannah Dustin. Becky, now fifteen, has been vindicated for shoving a letter opener into the throat of Alfredo Maysley, Star’s Central American mentor and sometimes lover, causing his death. It was obviously self-defense. Becky has gone to a different school in Boston to avoid unwanted notoriety. Ruby and Pearl, sisters, the two original black members of Star’s coterie, are being trafficked for sex somewhere in the southern U.S.
Star has fled to New York City, the Lower East Side. She is wanted by Boston police for being the leader of the girls’ ‘business’ that led to the shooting and death of two Boston detectives in addition to the killing of Maysley. The fact that the two deceased cops were criminal associates of Maysley did not lessen the determination of Boston police to find and punish Star.
Star, however, is smarter than most people. She possesses a genius I.Q., and somewhat of a nihilist personality. She finds a place to hide in New York, and spends many of her hours at Pace University where she audits a course in philosophy.
Meanwhile, two black Boston police detectives, Monroe Cummings and Clayton Dees, have arrived in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to investigate the murder of a black teenage girl, who has been identified as Pearl Baxter, one of Star’s original cohorts. Once they discover that the dead girl is actually Pearl, they begin to try track Ruby, her younger sister, who is rumored to be a sex slave somewhere in South Carolina.
Cryptically, Brienne gets word to Star in New York about Pearl’s murder and Ruby’s crucible. For the first time she can remember, Star feels guilt, and even a touch of shame. These were my friends, she realizes. They followed me. She decides that she will take responsibility for what is happening, and at least will find Ruby. And save her.
Star has partial knowledge about the sex trafficking network that the police do not possess. She also has consummate belief in her own abilities. She takes the AMTRAK down to Washington where she connects with a young man who once worked as an intermediary for Maysley and herself. Through him, she learns how to track down one Baby Cabrera, a 20-year-old pretty boy leader in the extremely vicious MS-13 gang that proliferates across U.S. cities, having originated in El Salvador.
Maysley had once hired Baby and his goons to control clients of the sex trafficked girls. After Maysley was killed, Baby had taken over his business. Pearl and Ruby were two of the teenage girls ensnared by the gang.
In the dark of night in D.C., Star shocks Baby and his cousin, Fausto, at the construction site for an office building, where the gang is supplying girls for after work entertainment for laborers. Although all the young machete-weilding MS-19 gangbangers have the most hideous reputations for violence, there is something about Star that fascinates Baby. Maybe he remembers how much Maysley, his hero, had admired the teenager, called her a genius. She asks Baby why he is wasting his time with laborers, when she can lead him to substantial money by sending rental girls overseas. In addition to a business partnership, Star wants Ruby returned to her.
In Boston, Brienne uses her considerable computer skills to create documents that appear to come from a Nigerian millionaire. The paperwork includes a contract with Star Madison to provide teenage American girls (preferably blonde) for a rental period. Star shows the documents to Baby Cabrera. He agrees to her terms. He knows where Ruby is. Although she escaped her controller in a traffic accident in Charleston, S. Carolina, he has a method for tracking her. Accompanied by cousin Fausto, they will drive to Charleston to locate Ruby.
Meanwhile, Ruby has found an empty home, repossessed by a bank, on Seabrook Island in South Charleston. With her is an eleven-year-old North Carolina girl named Given Lowery, another sex slave, who was forced to perform for men in tandem with Ruby. Given is traumatized and never speaks. Ruby cares for her like a mother. The older girl will not contact the police, fearful of their connections with MS-13. She finds various empty homes where she can break in and secure food for herself and Given. Meanwhile both girls find occasional solace at the nearby beach and ocean.
Detective Sergeant Cummings and Detective Dees have now arrived in Charleston, having found the trail of the slaver who was holding Ruby and Given before the car accident. Though they find their counterparts among the Charleston police devious, the Boston policemen utilize old-fashioned, by-the-book police work to direct their search for Ruby to South Charleston.
Meanwhile, during the long drive from D.C. to Charleston, Baby Cabrera ‘s inherent paranoia, emotional dissociation and deep-seated misogyny begin to create antipathy between himself and Star, whose superiority complex is seldom curbed. This would-be partnership does not appear to promise much durability.
All roads lead to Charleston as the main players unknowingly maneuver toward one another and a climax that will be both bloody and volatile.
©Peter Alexander 2015
Synopsis
Star Madison escapes just after her sixteenth birthday. She disappears from South Roxbury, from Hannah Dustin High, her Girl Gang collapsed and scattered . Brienne, her classmate, her lover, herself a young genius like Star, is the only one who remains at Hannah Dustin. Becky, now fifteen, has been vindicated for shoving a letter opener into the throat of Alfredo Maysley, Star’s Central American mentor and sometimes lover, causing his death. It was obviously self-defense. Becky has gone to a different school in Boston to avoid unwanted notoriety. Ruby and Pearl, sisters, the two original black members of Star’s coterie, are being trafficked for sex somewhere in the southern U.S.
Star has fled to New York City, the Lower East Side. She is wanted by Boston police for being the leader of the girls’ ‘business’ that led to the shooting and death of two Boston detectives in addition to the killing of Maysley. The fact that the two deceased cops were criminal associates of Maysley did not lessen the determination of Boston police to find and punish Star.
Star, however, is smarter than most people. She possesses a genius I.Q., and somewhat of a nihilist personality. She finds a place to hide in New York, and spends many of her hours at Pace University where she audits a course in philosophy.
Meanwhile, two black Boston police detectives, Monroe Cummings and Clayton Dees, have arrived in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to investigate the murder of a black teenage girl, who has been identified as Pearl Baxter, one of Star’s original cohorts. Once they discover that the dead girl is actually Pearl, they begin to try track Ruby, her younger sister, who is rumored to be a sex slave somewhere in South Carolina.
Cryptically, Brienne gets word to Star in New York about Pearl’s murder and Ruby’s crucible. For the first time she can remember, Star feels guilt, and even a touch of shame. These were my friends, she realizes. They followed me. She decides that she will take responsibility for what is happening, and at least will find Ruby. And save her.
Star has partial knowledge about the sex trafficking network that the police do not possess. She also has consummate belief in her own abilities. She takes the AMTRAK down to Washington where she connects with a young man who once worked as an intermediary for Maysley and herself. Through him, she learns how to track down one Baby Cabrera, a 20-year-old pretty boy leader in the extremely vicious MS-13 gang that proliferates across U.S. cities, having originated in El Salvador.
Maysley had once hired Baby and his goons to control clients of the sex trafficked girls. After Maysley was killed, Baby had taken over his business. Pearl and Ruby were two of the teenage girls ensnared by the gang.
In the dark of night in D.C., Star shocks Baby and his cousin, Fausto, at the construction site for an office building, where the gang is supplying girls for after work entertainment for laborers. Although all the young machete-weilding MS-19 gangbangers have the most hideous reputations for violence, there is something about Star that fascinates Baby. Maybe he remembers how much Maysley, his hero, had admired the teenager, called her a genius. She asks Baby why he is wasting his time with laborers, when she can lead him to substantial money by sending rental girls overseas. In addition to a business partnership, Star wants Ruby returned to her.
In Boston, Brienne uses her considerable computer skills to create documents that appear to come from a Nigerian millionaire. The paperwork includes a contract with Star Madison to provide teenage American girls (preferably blonde) for a rental period. Star shows the documents to Baby Cabrera. He agrees to her terms. He knows where Ruby is. Although she escaped her controller in a traffic accident in Charleston, S. Carolina, he has a method for tracking her. Accompanied by cousin Fausto, they will drive to Charleston to locate Ruby.
Meanwhile, Ruby has found an empty home, repossessed by a bank, on Seabrook Island in South Charleston. With her is an eleven-year-old North Carolina girl named Given Lowery, another sex slave, who was forced to perform for men in tandem with Ruby. Given is traumatized and never speaks. Ruby cares for her like a mother. The older girl will not contact the police, fearful of their connections with MS-13. She finds various empty homes where she can break in and secure food for herself and Given. Meanwhile both girls find occasional solace at the nearby beach and ocean.
Detective Sergeant Cummings and Detective Dees have now arrived in Charleston, having found the trail of the slaver who was holding Ruby and Given before the car accident. Though they find their counterparts among the Charleston police devious, the Boston policemen utilize old-fashioned, by-the-book police work to direct their search for Ruby to South Charleston.
Meanwhile, during the long drive from D.C. to Charleston, Baby Cabrera ‘s inherent paranoia, emotional dissociation and deep-seated misogyny begin to create antipathy between himself and Star, whose superiority complex is seldom curbed. This would-be partnership does not appear to promise much durability.
All roads lead to Charleston as the main players unknowingly maneuver toward one another and a climax that will be both bloody and volatile.
©Peter Alexander 2015
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Oct 26, 2015 07:01PM
Wow, I'm eager to read this book. A teenage girl who can outwit gangbangers. You don't see stories like that very often
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Mintra, the gangbangers, 'Baby' Cabrera and Fausto Perez are based on real gang members from MS-13, a very vicious gang that originated in El Salvador and now is organized in most American cities. However, they have never dealt with anyone like Star, who is absolutely fearless and extremely intelligent. I'm working on the book also as a film script. Thanks for liking.
