In huge ranches deep in the Amazon, thousands of migrant workers are trapped in a web of debt-bondage and deceit. Binka Le Breton sheds light on the lives of these workers, many of whom have lost all contact with their families and hometowns, providing a forum for them to tell their stories in their own words.

Le Breton also reports on her interviews with those who benefit from the illegal trade in human lives, and with those fighting against it. Far from being a dry academic treatise, her book serves as an impassioned, yet well-informed, call for an end to slavery in Brazil and around the world.

Binka Le Breton, an award-winning author and human rights activist, lives in Brazil at the Iracambi Rainforest Research Center.