# The Little Saint James *A Biography of Jeffrey Epstein* — Legendary Biographies No. 027 - **Subject:** Jeffrey Edward Epstein - **Written by:** Roland Mercer - **Shelf:** Crime / White-Collar Crime - **Published:** 2025 - **Extent:** 333 pages, 6 × 9 in, 60# uncoated cream, black ink - **Paperback:** $19.99 — 6 × 9 in · 333 pp · 60# uncoated cream, black ink · perfect-bound paperback (ISBN 979-8-90470-009-6) - **Hardcover:** $24.99 — 6 × 9 in · 333 pp · 60# uncoated cream, black ink · case laminate on the same text block (ISBN 979-8-90470-012-6) - **EPUB:** $3.99 — EPUB 3 · DRM-free · reads on Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books (ISBN 979-8-90470-007-2) - **Audiobook:** $5.99 — Unabridged · measured from the masters · read by Eric Mercer (ISBN 979-8-90470-008-9) - **Content notes:** sexual abuse of minors; trafficking; suicide Buy it, or read the opening free: volumes/027-the-little-saint-james.html ## About this book On the morning of August 10, 2019, a guard at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan opened a cell door and found Jeffrey Epstein dead. Two cameras had failed. Two officers had fallen asleep. The most consequential prisoner in the federal system had been left alone with a bedsheet, and the case the government had spent decades failing to bring was closed in a single night. Roland Mercer begins not with the death but with the boy: a math teacher's son from Sea Gate, Brooklyn, who talked his way into Dalton without a degree, into Bear Stearns without a résumé, and into the homes of presidents and princes without a verifiable client list. Between those rooms and the cell on Park Row lies the architecture of a life built on access — to money that cannot be fully traced, to girls who were children, to men who knew and looked away. Drawing on DOJ files, congressional testimony, the unsealed Maxwell exhibits, and the document tranches released between 2023 and 2026, Mercer reconstructs what the record actually shows: the 2008 plea agreement and the prosecutors who signed it, the flight logs, the island, the names that recur and the names that have been redacted. The File is an account of what was written down, what was withheld, and what the survivors have been asking the country to read. ## Contents 1. The File 2. Sea Gate 3. Dalton 4. Bear Stearns 5. Wexner 6. The Townhouse 7. Maxwell 8. The Friends 9. The Operation 10. Palm Beach 2005 11. The Acosta Deal 12. The Work Release 13. The Restoration 14. Julie Brown 15. Teterboro 16. August 10 17. Maxwell Trial 18. The Files 19. The Inspector 20. The Voices ## Questions **Who is The Little Saint James about?** Jeffrey Edward Epstein. The title never carries the subject's name: it names one concrete thing out of the life — in this case The Little Saint James — and the name goes on the line underneath. **Is this an authorised biography?** No. No subject, estate, label or foundation had approval over the text, and none paid for a word of it. The cost of that independence is that no new interviews were conducted for the book; it is built from the public record, and it says on the page where a scene is reconstructed rather than documented. **Can I read some of it before buying?** Yes — the whole opening chapter and the writer's foreword, free and in full, with no email address and no account. That is 3,043 words of the book. **How long is it?** About 98,000 words, 20 chapters, 333 pages in the paperback. **What is the printed book like?** 6 × 9 in, 60# uncoated cream, black ink, perfect-bound paperback, matte laminate. Every title in the series uses the same specification, so they line up on a shelf. **Does this book carry content warnings?** Yes: sexual abuse of minors; trafficking; suicide. They are listed before you buy rather than discovered afterwards. The material is handled as evidence, not as spectacle. ## The writer Roland Mercer is a Boston-based culture writer whose biographies of athletes have appeared as cover features in Sports Illustrated and The Atlantic. He covers the NFL, NBA, and the institutions that profit from each. His longform writing focuses on the physical costs of modern athletic competition and the complex systems that surround professional sports. Through books like The Fastest Woman, Friendly Fire, and The Bypass Transfusion, Mercer examines the intersection of physical endurance and commercial pressure. In books such as The Twisties and The Industrial Park Murder, he explores the psychological strain on high-profile competitors and the darker aspects of competitive industries. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he spends his free time rowing on the Charles River and collecting vintage sports memorabilia.