I haven’t always been captured by the graphic novel or grown up comic book.
However, The client is a great but straight forward story that lends itself to this medium.
It is the story of an older man; divorced and trying to find meaning in his life. It is set in Spain and the premise is people trafficking, where girls are lured with promise of good money to work in hotels and restaurants. 
The reality is that they are to work in clubs; performing lap dances and providing sex to men.
This operation is overseen by crime bosses who make the girls indebted to him so they can never payback the money or earn enough to clear the amount deemed owed.
The older man begins to fall for an Ecuadorian prostitute who he cares for beyond sex. They start to meet outside the club on “dates” to the movies or a meal together.
Her liaison is recognised by the enforcers; her behaviour is not tolerated and she is whisked away to a seedy joint miles away to consider her future.
The older man is beside himself and takes dramatic and life changing steps to find her.
The story is clear and flows well. With great illustrations and various formats to freshen up the reading experience.
I liked especially the drawing of the working girls on bar stools waiting to be propositioned.
A simple desire confronts a professional hood and once the d man takes his action it appears it can only end badly. He finds new inner strength to try and find his ‘girlfriend’ and save her from a life she never sought for herself.
It shows the scope and courage of the human spirit and that evil has to be confronted at some time. It is at its heart a love story as the man sees the true person in the girl not the sex worker she has been compelled to be.
I firmly and without reservation recommend it to you and suggest other writing formats be considered and embraced. I feel strangely uplifted by this tale and the medium in which it was told.

This is a simple comic which tells a complex story through art. A man falls in love with a sex worker who works at one of the many brothels/bars in town. She falls in love with him but then she goes missing.

The man decides to find out where she has been sent to and rescue her, and he does this by kidnapping the daughter of the brothel owner who is a hungarian mobster. 

At any stage this could go terribly wrong but this man is in love and he wants his lover back in his arms.

I have to say my heart was in my mouth when I read this because I was convinced it was going to have one of those really complex and dreadful endings. The way the story is told is just so simplistic but it reveals the complexities of poverty that can lead women into sex work. 

The story is also a commentary about trafficking and the lack of choice so many people have in our world today, not just women but also men. The underlying story is about freedom and the lack of freedom, but it is also a story about the unpredictability of love and courage.

It is also a story of hope.

Copy provided by  Europe Comics via Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.

BOR-RING.
I DNFed this book at fifty percent. I honestly wanted a lil' more of a background from this? I absolutely hate it when the book begins with mafia; police or shit.
Its just....no. I just couldn't stand this any longer. What even was the point of this??