Perversion of justice: the Jeffrey Epstein story. Julie K. Brown. 2021.

For many years, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s penchant for teenage girls was an open secret. Charged in 2008 with soliciting prostitution from a minor, Epstein was treated with unheard of leniency. But in 2017, when the US attorney who approved Epstein’s sweetheart deal was chosen by President Trump as labor secretary, reporter Julie K. Brown was compelled to investigate, examining old files and unearthing new evidence to question a criminal justice system that had dismissed the brutality of Epstein’s crimes and failed the young women who had been abused.

Tracking Epstein’s evolution from a college dropout out to one of the most successful financiers in the country (whose connections included Prince Andrew and former President S Donald Trump and Bill Clinton), Perversion of Justice reveals how Epstein came to run a global sex trafficking pyramid scheme with impunity for years. Brown also recounts his mysterious suicide in a New York City jail cell and the wild speculation about the secrets he took to the grave.