´How we can stand back when we see children in danger?´
Karen Hamm is an academic like no other. Her professional interests in West Africa, particularly Sierra Leone, may encounter the most non-academic circumstances, like for instance ferocious mafia tugs or traffickers of all sorts. As she spots an odd couple in Amsterdam´s airport: a white Jesuit priest with two black children, she not only took a picture of them, but she embarked on a race to save the children from the hands of the predators. An adventure that will take her from Amsterdam to Spain and Morocco and back to her hometown of Yorkshire.
Karen may be naive sometimes, but she is unstoppable and this is a character threat that may make it pleasant to the reader, although some of her mistakes are outrageous. I mean, who really is about to get the tracks of dangerous mafia boss(es) while sharing her business cards to whom happens to be around. But she is lucky and some of her contacts proved to be very useful later.
The Blue Alley by PC Cubitt is both suspenseful and a literary testimony of the intricated ways of child trafficking and human smuggling in general. It displays the vulnerability of victims faced with the underground support network of the culprits. A thoughtful inspiration, in addition to the breathtaking action.
PC Cubitt is an academic herself with interests in the African continent.
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