Every Body Counts: Money, lies, and the hidden trade in human lives

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Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. 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. But as governments spend more than ever on policing borders, each would-be migrant represents financial potential for the corrupt. Sex trafficking, drug mules, organ trading, forced labour; the flow of desperate people generates billions of dollars annually.

Every body has a price, as Barbie Latza Nadeau, great grand-daughter of a trafficked Afghan woman, 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 one Italian mob boss says 'Migrants are more profitable than drugs'.

From the criminal underworld to the highest echelons of national institutions, from mafia cartels to glamorous fashion houses, banks, governments, and even the Catholic Church, this ground-breaking investigation follows the money to reveal a secretive industry where lives don't matter, but where every body counts.

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Barbie Latza Nadeau works as a correspondent for CNN in Italy, covering migrants stories and tragedies. She is the author of several books, including The Godmother, a book which "dives into the abyss of this unexplored power" (Roberto Saviano). But Every Body Counts is not only an investigation, it is a narrative work driven by Barbie Latza Nadeau's own family history: her great grandmother was spirited from her family in a village in Afghanistan in the mid 1800s as an infant, "saved" by the Catholic Church and "given" to a wealthy Catholic family in Austria.