' Heartbreaking and powerful' - TLS Abetted by gangs of people smugglers today human
trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more
than ever on policing borders this ground-breaking investigation reveals a secretive world
where lives don' t matter but where every body counts. From the Mediterranean to the
English Channel the Rio Grande to Thailand at any moment there are over 280 million people
attempting to emigrate. While most migrants take legal channels those outside the system
represent financial potential for the corrupt. Sex trafficking drug mules organ trading
forced labour the flow of desperate people generates billions of dollars annually not only
for smugglers who get them across borders but also for traffickers. Every body has a price
as the veteran investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau knows. Yet no other multi-billion
pound transnational enterprise is less understood than the trade in humans a fact that
organised crime networks increasingly exploit as turn to migration for their profits. From the
criminal underworld to the highest echelons of national institutions from mafia cartels to
glamorous fashion houses banks and governments this ground-breaking investigation follows
the money to reveal a clandestine industry.
