Calloused Souls

Larry, a muscular Catholic priest, and David, a Buddhist monk trained in martial arts, learned about child tourism in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami. While they were helping people rebuild their lives, they stumbled upon an American girl being taken to a daycare center. To their horror, they discover that daycare centers in Thailand were sex trafficking children. Larry and David rescued Rachel and brought her home to Jessica. Since that time, they had conducted similar rescue missions with Mike, Larry’s brother and ex-Marine. It was a thankless, dirty job that wounded their souls with each trip.When Jessica shows up at Mike’s Diner, it’s to request their help in rescuing her CEO’s child. While law enforcement is treating the high-profile case as a kidnapping and waiting for a ransom note, Jessica suspects the child has been taking into the child tourism trade in Thailand where he was abducted.Larry, David, and Mike are faced with doing the dirty job again. Finding the boy in Thailand will be no easy task. There are no guarantees for these calloused souls when they jump back into the seedy and amoral underground of Thailand’s sex industry.Darren Lamb’s “Calloused Souls” mixes action and adult situations with philosophy. A part of the “Sea of Sin” series, Lamb delivers a unique and thrilling story that improves upon the earlier novels: “Transubstantiation” and “Red Rain.” Don’t miss out on this great read.