Hummingbird - Paperback

When Jake Hardy was 12, his father settled a gambling debt by trading Jake's twin sister Catherine to the man he owed. Now an agent with the Department of Homeland Security, Jake spends his life hunting human traffickers and most of all, the man who took his sister. When Jake and his partner rescue 13 girls from a shipping container in Houston, they stumble onto a lead that will take Jake across the country, into a secret society of predators, and ultimately to the Devil himself. Haunted by nightmares of failed rescues but buoyed by his partner and a mysterious woman he's drawn to but doesn't know he can trust, Jake barrels toward the deadly confrontation he's been anticipating for 20 years. It's a race against time to stop this man who calls himself "The Sommelier," and to rescue Catherine before there's nothing left of her to find.

"There are countless types of human trafficking in the U.S. and globally, and in Hummingbird, Michael Tuggle incorporates many of them into a gripping story that will leave you both horrified and thinking it can't be true. I've spent more than two decades in the war against global trafficking and, while Hummingbird is fiction, the scenarios it depicts are, unfortunately, all too real."

SUSAN COPPEDGE, Former Federal Prosecutor and Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons