Rich or poor five people seemingly very different find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York jilted & miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine & fifteen-year-old Anna trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble an overworked human rights lawyer knows better than most how easy it is to fall through the cracks into the abyss. Yet when her au pair Iryna disappears Polly's own needs & beliefs drag her family into a world of danger deceit & terror. Riveting humane engaging HEARTS & MINDS is a novel that is both entertaining & prepared to ask the most serious questions about the way we live.