That the sex industry in Asia is thriving today comes as no great revelation to most. But the prevalence of Western men travelling to Asia to purchase sex from young Asian women is only part of a horrific story. In Sex Slaves, Louise Brown takes an angry look at the industry of trafficking of women for prostitution. Her trawl through the secret world of sex slaves focuses on the women themselves, their customers, those who manage the industry, and the corrupt institutions that help to sustain it. Though her trawl takes her from roadside shacks to high-class hotels, the exploitation of young women and often little girls is a universal element of the industry and the hypocrisy of the cultures that condone this, while appearing to espouse family values, is made patently clear. Although Brown's examination of the sex industry in a number of Asian countries is at times scattered, what the book lacks in focus, it makes up for in vehemence.