About the book \;
\nThis is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt syste m that supported him\, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has repr esented Epstein&rsquo\;s victims for more than a decade.
\nIn June 2 008\, Florida-based victims&rsquo\; rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young w oman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a shocking story of hav ing been sexually coerced at the age of fourteen by a wealthy man in Palm Beach named Jeffrey Epstein. Edwards\, who had never heard of Epstein\, ha d no idea that this moment would change the course of his life.
\nOv er the next ten years\, Edwards devoted himself to bringing Epstein to jus tice\, and came close to losing everything in the process. Edwards tracked down and represented more than twenty of Epstein&rsquo\;s victims\, shine d a light on his shadowy network of accomplices\, including Ghislaine Maxw ell\, and uncovered the scope of his sexually exploitative organization\, which reached into the highest levels of American society.
\nEdwards gives his riveting\, blow-by-blow account of battling Epstein on behalf o f his clients\, and provides stunning details never shared before. He expl ains how he followed Epstein&rsquo\;s criminal enterprise from Florida\, t o New York\, to Europe\, to a Caribbean island\, and\, in the process\, be came the one person Epstein most feared could take him down. Epstein and h is cadre of high-priced lawyers were able to manipulate the FBI and the Ju stice Department\, but despite making threats and attempting schemes strai ght out of a spy movie\, Epstein couldn&rsquo\;t stop Edwards\, his small team of committed lawyers\, and\, most of all\, the victims\, who were dea d-set on seeing their abuser finally put behind bars. - (Simon and Schuste r)
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