In 2006, Florida prosecutors were assigned the case of multimillionaire Jeffery Epstein. For years, he'd been luring underage girls--mostly poor, troubled, inexperienced, or all three--to one of his lavish homes, where they were induced to sexually pleasure him. The police investigation seemed airtight, but then Epstein used his wealth and power to influence the prosecution. He was eventually given a plea deal so favorable that he spent most of his days out of jail at an office, where he continued to be visited by young girls. A decade later, Miami Herald reporter Brown decided to take another look at the case, in part because of the involvement of Trump's Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, who had been in charge of the prosecution. What she found forms the basis of this book, which began as a series of explosive, award-winning articles.Though the emphasis is on Epstein's crimes, the fallout for his victims, and the disgrace of a two-tier justice system, Brown interweaves it with her own experience as an underpaid, overworked reporter in the sadly dying profession of local journalism. These two stories are sometimes juxtaposed clumsily, forcing readers caught up in Epstein's saga of perversion, excess, and privilege to suddenly segue to learning about Brown's difficulty saving for her kids' college tuition.Throughout, however, the account of Brown's dogged reporting, her willingness to spend hours digging, traveling, and interviewing, even in the face of threats and stonewalls, is inspiring, and ultimately her work led to Epstein's arrest. Brown lays out a lot about the way the world works, and much of it isn't good. But, sometimes, when enough people stand up, justice prevails.