Slave
Description
A man goes to a prostitute and pays for thirty minutes of her time. But she lets him know she's a captive, a prisoner. What should he do? Go to the police?
He would be arrested. He has committed a serious crime: paying for sex with a trafficked woman, a 'controlled' woman. Besides, the police could not free her. She would be held in a detention centre before being deported - perhaps straight back into the hands of the traffickers.
The man is Neil Chapman and the woman is Liliana Petreanu. The Slave is the story of what Neil eventually does, and what happens to Liliana as a result... and the dilemma faced by Bernard Kassin, a respectable, law-abiding older neighbour.
It's a story about sex and society, men and women, freedom and slavery, law and lawlessness, in a quiet London suburb where such things really do happen.
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Person
I'm the author of more than forty travel guides for major publishers, and six novels - Bella's Wish (2026); On Romford Road (2025); The J-Word (2009, 2011, 2018); The Slave (2013); Love (2015); and The Unknown Mrs Rosen (2020).
Bella's Wish is about an 80-year-old woman who disappears and cannot be contacted. Her oldest friend goes searching, breaks into her home in a remote village in the south of France and learns more about his old friend Bella than he ever bargained for. https://www.andrewsanger.com/bellas-wish
On Romford Road follows the destinies of two tough-minded East London families as they climb from poverty to prosperity. One chooses the path of crime and corruption, the other toil and education. But fate has bound them together. A tale of revenge and rivalry, a family saga set against the story of the 20th century in London. https://www.andrewsanger.com/on-romford-road
The Unknown Mrs Rosen, published 2020, is about a former spy at the end of a secret life about which her family and carers know nothing. https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-unknown-mrs-rosen. The J-Word, about an elderly man who seeks justice in his own way after being attacked by an antisemitic gang, was published in the UK in 2009 by Snowbooks, and came out in a Kindle edition in 2011. A new edition was published in 2018. Featured at London's Jewish Book Week and the Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival. For more about The J-Word see https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-j-word The Slave, about a young 'client' who tries to free a woman from forced prostitution, was published in 2013 at Smashwords as an ebook for multiple platforms, and is also available as a paperback. https://www.andrewsanger.com/the-slave Love is a story of heartbreak on the hippie trail, set in the heady atmosphere of the late Sixties. https://www.andrewsanger.com/love To read about my novels and see what reviewers thought of them, see https://www.andrewsanger.com
