Katya Martinova's biography about her remarkable recovery from one of the world's worst rape cases.

A SHORT SUMMARY

This book unlocks the jarring psychological journey that propelled Russias most famous rape crime. It is the inside story of Katya Martinova’s prolonged sexual slavery at the hands of an ostensibly upstanding member of Russian society. When Katya was 14 years old, Viktor Mokhov abducted her and her friend Lena from the street and took them to a tiny dungeon he had built under his garage. During her captivity, Katya and Lena were subjected to terror, tear gas, malnutrition and rape numbering in excess of a thousand times. With Katya acting as midwife, her friend Lena gave birth to two children in the dungeon under barbaric conditions. They prepared for childbirth by reading a handbook for midwives Mokhov gave them. After a miraculous release in 2004, Katya’s story created headlines globally. This book is a voyage behind the curtain of extra-deviant sexuality and a young woman's desperate struggle to rebuild a psyche burned almost to ashes.