Lost Girls (Sherry Moore, Book 3) [Mass Market Paperback]

George D. Shuman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2009

Now in a mass market edition, George D. Shuman’s third riveting thriller featuring Sherry Moore, a blind psychic who can see the final moments of a dead person’s life.

Blind psychic Sherry Moore is summoned to the Caribbean by a mysterious and powerful philanthropist to find the murderous kingpin of a human trafficking network. Frantically searching for clues in the remote jungles of Haiti, she finds a legendary voodoo priest—a man with abilities eerily similar to her own.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Shuman's provocative third thriller to feature blind psychic Sherry Moore (after Last Breath) puts a troubling, unsavory issue front and center. When Sherry uses her unusual gift—the ability to see the final seconds of a dead person's life—to help save some stranded mountain climbers in Alaska's Denali National Park, she gets an unexpected and horrific glimpse of the sexual slave trade. After learning more about the tortured women she sees in her vision, Sherry doesn't hesitate to make a dangerous trip into the wilds of Haiti in search of justice. Sherry's unique talent opens doors for her, but it's her determination to live a full, active, useful life and her grit when things get rough that makes her such an appealing hero. Shuman puts a human face on the victims of human trafficking while painting a shameful picture of the failure of the world's nations to address the problem. (Sept.)
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About the Author

George D Shuman is author of Lost Girls, Last Breath, and 18 Seconds. A retired twenty-year veteran of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, he resides in the mountains of southwest Pennsylvania, where he now writes full-time. To learn more, visit his website at www.georgedshuman.com.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Star (June 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416553045
• ISBN-13: 978-1416553045
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,016,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I was born in the Allegheny Mountains of Southwest PA. hard country--coal and steel country. In fact I worked in the Steel Mills as a teenager, last sticking rivets into the sides of what would become Candian railroad cars. When I was nineteen I drove to Washington DC and walked the streets looking for work, joined the Metropolitan Police Department and retired twenty years later as a Lieutenant. During that time I worked plainclothes investigating heroin trafficking in the DC northwest area and later investigated corruption in the DC Government.
In 1992 I got involved in the resort hotel industry on Long Island, New York, became a Human Resource Director for several years and later Director of Operations for a constortium of Luxury Hotels on the Island of Nantucket.
I now write full time in the Laurel Mountains of PA.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wow -- this one was really good!, October 10, 2008

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Denise Crawford "DC" (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Girls: A Sherry Moore Novel (Sherry Moore Novels) (Hardcover)

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I really liked this one. I had been so disappointed by Last Breath - so I was afraid to even try it. The story was really interesting. The background info about Haiti and the corruption and crime there was fascinating. The plot regarding the kidnapped girls for the sex trade was very well written. Funny though, Sherry was really not the focus of the book and that was fine with me. That worked though for the story. I was intrigued reading what happened to Jill, a rich girl kidnapped from the Caribbean and locked in the dungeon of a castle in Haiti and about Alexksandra and her toughness to survive. The description of torture and inhumanity was sickening. All in all, this was a great story. I really had no idea of the scope of the torture and the plight of the victimized women. I'm all but certain that this exists today and would wish to know more about what I could do. I highly recommend the book!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast and nasty, October 13, 2008

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John Bowes (Oxford, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Girls: A Sherry Moore Novel (Sherry Moore Novels) (Hardcover)

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Our blind heroine's adventure allows us to see horrific events that are unseen by most of the world. Unless a victim is close to you. A masterful job of combining a thriller with a vital issue, human trafficking. Great bad guys. A good Polish cop. Will we see more of her? The author has created an intersting situation. His heroine is not crucial to a lot of the action, but is our "eyes" to all sorts of stuff. Good job.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling and Unputdownable, October 8, 2008

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Pam from Texas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lost Girls: A Sherry Moore Novel (Sherry Moore Novels) (Hardcover)

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Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. It is the first book I have read by this author but it isn't the last. The pace was super fast and the suspense high. Sherry Moore is a blind young woman who can see the last thoughts of the dead by holding their hand. She is brought to a dead mountain climber who is hanging off the side of Mt. McKinley to find out where the rest of his team is. Along with this information she glimpses a world that haunts her long afterwards. She "sees" young women in cages and being tortured by men involved in human trafficking.

We, the readers, are introduced to a couple of these young women and see the hell they go through while in captivity. What made this more horrific for me was knowing this really goes on. How anybody could be so ruthless and cruel is beyond my understanding.

Sherry is brought back into this world when a policeman witnesses the body of a missing girl falling from an airplane. I don't want to give too much of the plot away but I will say Sherry enters a world full of danger and corruption and pure evil. I was reading at breakneck speed until I finished the book. It was totally satisfying.