RED AND WHITE

Over a million people are trafficked illegally across international borders every year, a quarter of this trade being made up by women from economically deprived Eastern European countries and former Soviet republics destined for a life of enforced prostitution in the West.

Whereas other novels about human trafficking have skimmed the surface of the trade, RED AND WHITE unashamedly peels off its outer layers, burrowing into its darkest depths and mercilessly exposing every segment. This is a novel that takes its readers on a journey to places they didn’t know existed.

Superintendent Bob Stricker’s investigation of the death of a young model draws him into a world where there is no respect for human life, where the only motive is the ruthless acquisition of money. As the bodies pile up, he finds himself in a race against time to end a killing spree that threatens every sex worker in Liverpool. While his professional capacities are taxed to their limits, he is faced with an equally difficult battle to save his faltering marriage. Can he solve the most baffling case of his career and win back his estranged wife? RED AND WHITE’s climactic chapter will leave readers as breathless as Stricker himself.

JAMES WRENN was born into an academic family and surrounded by books from an early age. Inspired by the great social commentaries of Steinbeck and Hemingway, Wrenn endeavours to create a work that is more than just fiction, a novel that stretches literary boundaries to expose the wrongs in our society. His love of reading has also encouraged his desire to travel and experience other cultures. He taught French for a number of years before becoming a writer.