Relentless Pursuit
My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein
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Bradley J. Edwards
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In June 2008, Florida-based victims’ rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a shocking story of having 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, had no idea that this moment would change the course of his life. Over the next ten years, Edwards devoted himself to bringing Epstein to justice, and came close to losing everything in the process. Edwards tracked down and represented more than twenty of Epstein’s victims, and shined a light on his network of contacts and friends, among them Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
Edwards gives his riveting, blow-by-blow account of battling Epstein on behalf of his clients, and provides stunning details never shared before. He explains how he followed Epstein’s criminal enterprise from Florida, to New York, to Europe, to a Caribbean island, and, in the process, became the one person Epstein most feared could take him down. Epstein and his cadre of high-priced lawyers were able to manipulate the FBI and the Justice Department, but, despite making threats and attempting schemes straight out of a spy movie, Epstein couldn’t stop Edwards, his small team of committed lawyers and, most of all, the victims, who were dead-set on seeing their abuser finally put behind bars.
This is the definitive account of the Epstein saga, personally told by the gutsy lawyer who took on one of the most brazen sexual criminals in the history of the US, and exposed the corrupt system that let him get away with it for far too long.
©2020 Bradley J. Edwards (P)2020 Simon & Schuster UK
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- Selicor
- 21.10.2020
How a sociopathic pedophile corrupted state power
I hesitated before buying that book. Would the trials against Epstein really be so interesting? But the denials of so many famous people, including Prince Andrew and Donald Trump, to have been close to Epstein had made me curious.
It did not take long until I discovered that this book is about much more than Epstein’s sex trafficking and pedophilia. Sure, you learn how he organized a constant flow of new, underage girls for his sex games. How he exploited the vulnerable, the abused, the poor. How he appointed girls to his houseguests. But the big challenge for the lawyer and author of this book was not finding women who were willing to tell their story and do so in court. It was the totally surreal power screen that seemed to protect Epstein. Illegal, secret proceedings to sabotaged his prosecution. Interference from government officials. Knowledge that could only have been obtained by some sophisticated bugging device. I knew that rich people can make things happen and make things go away. I am not naïve. But only Eva Joly’s book about the biggest corruption case in the history of mankind has shocked me as much as Edwards’ account of his 10-year-long battle against Epstein. Few people are as courageous, stubborn and intelligent as Edwards. Most if not all others would very probably have given up, been frightened away, run out of ideas.
We need to hear stories, in which David wins against Goliath, good prevails against power, the weak are successfully protected. That is one reason to read/listen to that book.
And then there is the dawning awareness that pedophilia is not a rare phenomenon. That it is much more common than officially acknowledged. That it is found in all social classes. That it makes men in powerful positions vulnerable to pressure and blackmail. That it transfers power from these men to those who procure the girls, have the knowledge and hold the proofs.
If you want to get a good look behind the scenes, go way beyond headlines and news, then this book is an excellent choice. It is a gripping account of a decade-long fight for justice, a well-written and well-read story and definitely an eye-opener.
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