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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Journalist Julie K. Brown broke the Epstein story which ultimately brought him down. This is a tough read, but a must for those who love narrative nonfiction, and seeing assholes get their, albeit long overdue, comeuppance. The open secret, and the plethora of people who protected him, shows just how cowardly and depraved humans can be.

Typically, I don‘t follow a lot of investigative journalism, nor am I all that interested in mainstream news coverage, so when the Epstein story broke, I didn‘t follow it; just knew the basic hearsay and rumors.

But Lolita directed me to Lolita in the Afterlife, which in more than one essay alluded to Epstein, and so I found myself compelled to learn more about this sorta kinda real life Humbert Humbert. And Julie K. Brown more than delivered.

Journalist Julie K. Brown did not skip a beat in this one. It greatly details hers and others relentless and risky accounts of trying to bring down Epstein over and over. Unfortunately, even with how well this book is written, and no matter how exhaustive her , there will never be answers to questions that people still do not want answered.

Very well researched book and disturbing AF!
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This was REALLy good. I didn‘t know much about the full Epstein back story, but Brown explains things well and is compulsively readable. The content is sickening but I couldn‘t put this one down. Well reported.

Starting this one next.

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Saw a couple of great reviews for this in the weekend papers so, of course, I had to have it.

The author is a ‘small-town‘ journalist who investigates why Epstein was protected by the establishment for so long. Her report in the Miami Herald ultimately led to his arrest. She also talks to some of the girls involved to tell their stories.

This is an amazing piece of reporting, especially by a local paper. Julie looked at the Jeffery Epstein human trafficking story from the miscarriage of justice to his victims by a questionable immunity deal. From there, the story began to unfurl to his eventual capture and death. In this book, she shares how she and her photographer got the story as well as breaking down each major point in the timeline of Epstein‘s crimes and arrest. A must-read.