McGee's Case of Orphanage Girls Taken by Traffickers
Wednesday's Child is the third novella of Carl Douglass's McGee
series. It is a tale of \ÒWednesday's child is full of
woe.\Ó Brigid O'Hanlon--age thirteen--is one of the
\ÒWednesday's Children\Ó--a foundling left on the
doorstep of St. Anne's Orphanage in Red Hook, New York. One of the
few days she and her girl-friends can count is the grand and
city-wide heralded celebration of their thirteenth birthday. Harm
befalls them, and McGee and Associates are called to help save them
on a pro bono basis. The search transcends city, then country
boundaries, and then on the high seas. The Human Trafficking
division of the NYPD is called into the search after bodies are
found in the pestilent Gowanus Canal near a semi-trailer containing
the bodies of victims of a human trafficking network run by the
Snakeheads. The hunt for the girls and for the clever and heartless
monsters who killed their vulnerable captives descends into an
underworld of CIs, Mafiosos, crooked Teamsters, and child
molesters, presided over by the ephemeral devil, Sister Chi. The
combined resources of McGee, the NYPD task force, the New Jersey
State Police, the FBI, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Navy, the
CIA, and the Catholics of NYC, and The MSS and the PSB of the
Peoples Republic of China join in an around-the-world and
around-the-clock manhunt for the rust bucket ship, the Golden
Traveler, and the kidnappers. It promises to be very close and
dangerous thing.
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