MIND GAMES
The groundbreaking biography of an ex-trafficker.
Eye-opening insights into the psychological warfare used to trap youth.
DEREK’S STORY
Derek Williams didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming a pimp. He wanted to become an attorney. He did eventually stand in front of a judge—but not as a lawyer.
Abuse, neglect, and other trauma led Derek to the streets. When his friends took him to the prostitution track to rob sex buyers, he noticed the only ones getting arrested were the girls.
This hatched a plan to protect himself from jail time while still making enough money to fund his three‑bag‑a‑day heroin addiction. At 16, he talked his 14‑year‑old girlfriend into letting him sell her.
This marked the start of a 32‑year career, trafficking more than 150 victims in all 50 states, Canada, and Europe.
In Mind Games, Understanding Trafficker Psychological Warfare, He pulls back the veil on the psychological warfare traffickers wage against our children, creating a one-of-a-kind opportunity for practitioners and parents to understand this destructive industry from the inside out.
Game-Changing Biography
Follow Derek’s journey from highly traumatized child to ruthless trafficker. He takes us deep inside the mind of both that child and pimp.
Cutting-Edge Research
Each chapter makes crucial connections between the events in Derek’s life and what could have led to different outcomes.
Innovative Tools
Co-author Dr. Graves adds vital insights and tools from 13 years of direct victim experience, training others to prevent and heal victims, and leading-edge protocol development.
This trailblazing biography aspires to not only prevent children from becoming the victim of someone like Derek was but to keep them from becoming who he was.
“By unpacking my story, I hope to give you strategies to combat the hopelessness that holds many of our children captive, making them easy prey for a skilled predator or an incubator for a beast in the making. While I can never make retribution for all the lives I ravaged, I long to prevent the destruction of more of our children.”
— Derek Williams
CHAPTER STRUCTURE
It’s time to move beyond youth refusing to disclose and running back to their traffickers. Instead of force-fitting traditional solutions that weren’t designed for and can’t hold up under the unique, complex trauma of child sex trafficking, this book’s one-of-a-kind, in-depth insider insights equip you to transform the game. Each chapter’s three sections work together to arm the reader with at least one idea to create a different future for our children.
1
Prevent victims and traffickers
Derek’s Story: Gain unprecedented knowledge with a transparent look inside the life and mind of a child who grew into a trafficker.
2
Transform Your Work
Former Pimp’s Perspective: Make the connection between the traumatic events in Derek’s life and his ensuing actions with analysis by Dr. Graves.
3
Take Your Thinking To The Next Level
Two Minute Introspection: Reflect on a key question that sparks solutions with hope.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deena Graves, DSL
Founder M3 Transformations, speaker, consultant
Dr. Graves is an international award-winning communicator and national speaker who founded the Dallas non-profit Traffick911 in 2009 when she first learned of the atrocity of child sex trafficking. Traffick911’s breakthrough solutions quickly won accolades as the Fort Worth Commission for Women’s Outstanding Organization of the Year with commendations by the city council, mayor, and a state senator. Traffick911 also received a federal law enforcement award and regional law enforcement recognition as a most-valued partner under Deena’s leadership.
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There’s an army of people like Derek's former self out there luring our kids into their arms for their own profit and pleasure. They lurk inside children’s cell phones. They smile at your child in the mall. They sit behind them in school. They talk them up at parties. Shut them down with Mind Game's unparalleled revelations.
