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What happens when a 41 year old human trafficking survivor begins to tell her story on social media without any concept of safety as she also navigates new homelessness? She gets lured out to an RV Park in Montrose, CO, is encouraged to participate in forced poverty and off-grid living, & her digital image is used in an attempt to lure others. When she begins to understand the parts AI & social media played in this national trafficking scheme, she turns to the FBI, police, & human trafficking hotline, but no one believes her. So she records a podcast from within the ring, hoping for help.

Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." The book is not simply a chronicle of Giovanni Rocco's adventures in the murky and dangerous Mafia world he inhabited, but also a fascinating window into the psychological struggles that such a life entails.