4.5 stars 🌟

Everyone buy a subscription to a newspaper, even if you don’t read the paper, to support journalists like Julie K. Brown.

This book is a powerful example of the critical importance of the press as parts of “checks and balances”.

My heart breaks for all his victims.

Also, f—ing Florida. I ...more

J. . Brown has really taken on four stories in this book. Besides putting brackets around the Epstein story and it’s available information, Brown puts on her investigative journalist’s hat and gives voice to the victims of Epstein’s crimes over the many years he built his sex trafficking businesses. ...more

Great book. Well researched.

The book contents, though, were really terrible. I learned a lot about this creepy guy.

Some of this book is really stomach-turning.

Would recommend to learn more about this.

4.3/5 ...more

Disappointing

I was so disappointed in how bad this book was. It’s poorly written, has multiple segues into author’s unrelated grievances and degenerates into conspiracies, which makes it more troubling how much she prioritizes telling us every single time a nefarious character is Jewish. ...more

This is not a good book. It’s really convoluted and confusing, is it a story about Epstein or a really incredibly self serving and boring auto biography? Well it’s those things but the main purpose of this book, which is so shocking, is another social justice warrior reporter and their partisan effo ...more

If you ever wanted to be an investigative journalist you need to read this book. It will change your mind or your life. So much detail, so much digging, so many roadblocks, so much horror to discover. I was trying to keep up with Julie Brown and was impressed with her research. This is a dense, hard ...more

An extraordinary book revealing corruption and coverup surrounding one of the most notorious predators of young girls. Brown broke many stories reporting for ⁦@MiamiHerald and shows why journalism matters in this excellent book. This started as a local story about the exploitation of young girls in ...more

The USA still has some amazing (and brave) investigative journalists and Julie Brown is clearly one of them. Working for the Miami Herald this book chronicles her investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and in particular the failure of prosecutors to hold him properly to account for the sex trafficking a ...more

I am giving this book a five star...not for the writing style, but more to make sure Julie K. Brown is rewarded for being the only person in the world with the courage and determination to confront that horrible person who will go unamed.

Everyone should read the book to know just how close justice c ...more

Four stars and not five because it was a little confusingly written, bouncing back and forth chronologically. But, basically a good telling of where things went wrong in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Author Julie Brown makes a compelling case for her struggles, including financially, to succeed as a jou ...more