title: The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
author:  Victor Malarek 
description: Award-winning Canadian journalist Malarek reports on the most recent wave in the global sex trade, sparked by the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. According to the U.S. State Department, at least 800,000900,000 impoverished young women, many of them orphans, from Eastern and Central Europe, are lured with promises of jobs as waitresses, nannies or maids in Western Europe or North America. Instead, they find themselves imprisoned in apartments, massage parlors or brothels in countries ranging from South Korea, Bosnia and Japan to Israel and Germany. With "ruthless efficiency," in the words of one European official, Russian and other organized crime syndicates control this human trade, which offers high profits with little risk of interference thanks to "complacency, complicity, and corruption" on the part of national governments and law enforcement. One of the more horrific examples Malarek offers involves sex slaves in Bosnia who serviced NATO and UN peacekeepers after the war in 1995. Malarek recounts the affecting first-person stories of numerous victims. The author has excellent research skills and clearly makes his case with the hope of creating enough outrage to stop this traffic in women. However, his hyperbolic, tabloid style of writing is distracting. The facts are horrendous enough to speak for themselves. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: _**She’s single. On holiday. And about to embark on a wicked sexperiment!**_
  
  Normally, scientist Natasha Petrova follows the rules of logic. But there’s
  nothing remotely logical about her sister’s gorgeous bodyguard, Max Jensen—or
  the zing of raw lust that hits whenever he’s near. So sexy. So tempting.
  _Soooo not a good idea._ Only, now Natasha is single again...and Max has made
  it clear that for their trip to the secluded, tropical beauty of Green Island,
  he’s all hers for the taking.
  
  A sexperiment with the hottest man ever. No strings. It sounds so... _simple_.
  
  But Max and Natasha’s plan isn’t without risks. Natasha has a history of
  falling for the wrong men. And Max’s family is practically Aussie royalty,
  which means that Max’s playboy naughtiness _always_ ends up in the
  tabloids—the last place Natasha wants to be.
  
  This tiny island in the Great Barrier Reef might be the safest place to
  indulge in the attraction crackling between them. Exposing their bodies to
  pleasure is one thi