Lost Girls

By George D. Shuman

Book Overview

The third riveting thriller featuring Sherry Moore--a blind psychic who can see the final moments of a dead person's life--whose gift might be the key to uncovering the truth behind a deadly international trafficking network.

They are known only as the Lost Girls--young women from across the globe, marked by a haunting tattoo and vanished into the shadows of the Caribbean. Rumors whisper of their fate: trafficked through the mountains of Hispaniola and sold to powerful men, their secrets buried with them. No one has ever escaped. No one has ever lived to tell their story.

When humanitarian Stephanie Trahaney disappears while investigating the rumors, and the body of a tattooed young woman washes ashore in Jamaica, the case draws the attention of Sherry Moore--a blind psychic with the rare ability to relive the final moments of the dead. Only the victim is not Stephanie, but Jill Bishop, a missing American whose grieving mother has questions that Sherry might be able to answer. What Sherry uncovers in Jill's final seconds hints at a vast, hidden network more terrifying than anyone imagined.

Driven by visions and a growing sense of urgency, Sherry follows a trail from the streets of Santo Domingo to the remote jungles of Haiti, where she comes face-to-face with a powerful voodoo priest with abilities eerily similar to her own. As the line between the living and the dead blurs, Sherry must confront forces both human and supernatural to expose the truth--before more girls are lost forever.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416553045
• ISBN13: 9781416553045
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

griping and haunting tale of HumanTrafficking

This book grabs you from the first. Having not read any of the other Sherry Moore books I was still very intrigued. Sherry reads a mans emotions and finds out some disturbing new. The man, "saw" things that deeply bothered Sherry and she finds herself along a path to destuction. Jill is a young lady who, like most young ladies, is cought up in everyday things and surface things. She goes to the market and is abducted and sent to a compound for young women being sold for their bodies at the highest prices. Jill befriends a woman anmed Alexzandra and this take is about Jill's struggles, Alexandras bravery and Sherry being drawn into the vortex of evil these men have planned for these girls. Very gripping and amazing tale, you cannot help but to put Natalie Holloway's face on Jill's as she struggles to to stay alive and her mother searches for her.

Please Read These Books!

I have now read all of the Sherry Moore novels and I love every one of them. I don't understand why this author is not more well known. His books should be on best seller lists. Once I read 18 seconds, I was hooked! The last one, Lost Girls, is excellent on so many levels. Most importantly, though, is the subject matter----human trafficking. I didn't realize the extent of this atrocity until reading this book. I am retired now and read alot of books. I have to say I have enjoyed these books the most in the past two years. Read them!!! You will love them,too.

Chilling and Unputdownable

Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. It is the first book I have read by this author but it isn't the last. The pace was super fast and the suspense high. Sherry Moore is a blind young woman who can see the last thoughts of the dead by holding their hand. She is brought to a dead mountain climber who is hanging off the side of Mt. McKinley to find out where the rest of his team is. Along with this information she glimpses a world that haunts her long afterwards. She "sees" young women in cages and being tortured by men involved in human trafficking. We, the readers, are introduced to a couple of these young women and see the hell they go through while in captivity. What made this more horrific for me was knowing this really goes on. How anybody could be so ruthless and cruel is beyond my understanding. Sherry is brought back into this world when a policeman witnesses the body of a missing girl falling from an airplane. I don't want to give too much of the plot away but I will say Sherry enters a world full of danger and corruption and pure evil. I was reading at breakneck speed until I finished the book. It was totally satisfying.

Shuman Has A New Fan

Lost Girls was, in a word, awesome. From the very first chapter, I was hooked. The book begins with a daring rescue where, for first time Shuman readers such as myself, we are introduced to Sherry Moore. Moore, a blind woman with the ability to "see" a deceased one's last thoughts, having been called in to assist with finding survivors of a mountainous disaster, first learns of something horrendous occuring in a place far away: human trafficking. While the memory haunts her, it isn't until much later she is able to link one dead person's memories to another. And from there, the human traffickers become a target of Moore's friends in high places: the FBI, CIA and Interpol. While portions of this book are extremely graphic, the majority of the book focuses on finding these women and their abductors. This is an excellent fictional thriller, despite the subject matter. Although I had not read any of this author's works before, I am definitely a fan now!

Eye-opening

This is the third Sherry Moore novel I have read, and this may be the best of them. I say that not because I feel that it is written any better than the others, but that, in addition to telling a compelling story, it's also giving the reader an insight into one of the most vicious practices in that world: enslaving unwilling females, sugjecting them to unspeakable tortures, turning them into drug addicts, and then requiring them to become prostitutes to the depraved customers of these evil men. This is a practice which goes on every day, and we hardly, if ever, hear or read about it. The author has skillfully woven this practice into his storyline, and it is a mark of his writing ability that you can almost feel the pain of these women, and experience the evil of their captors. As usual our heroine goes full tilt into her case, attempting to solve a mystery that she "saw" in the mind of a dead man in Alaska. It takes her to the islands of the Caribbean, and while the ending may be a bit improbable, it is storytelling, and informing, at its best!