Goodreads asked Rene Natan:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Rene Natan Years back, in one of our frequent trips to Mexico, my husband and I came in contact with a local travel agent who described the many concerns he had about the recruitment of very young girls for ill-identified jobs. These were minors placed by the parents in the hands of very unscrupulous people who would take them north of the border. “Some—actually many, I’m afraid—are caught in prostitution,” he confided to us with dismay, “and I often feel that the parents are aware of the situation.”

The mass media, with their programmes and articles on human trafficking (like the Minh Dang’s story) renewed my interest in this kind of prostitution.

I thought the subject would constitute a realistic background for my new fiction. I used the prostitution of minors only as a background, though; the story is still fiction, and portraits the fight of teenager Louis Saura against mobster Camilo Estorbar—and Louis wouldn’t make it without the help of a smart detective.

flag