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No. 027 · Crime · White-Collar Crime
The Little Saint James
a biography of Jeffrey Edward Epstein
What the book is
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.
At a glance
- Subject
- Jeffrey Edward Epstein
- Shelf
- Crime · White-Collar Crime
- Written by
- Roland Mercer
- Chapters
- 20 across 333 pages
- Narrated by
- Eric Mercer
- Editions
- Paperback · Hardcover · EPUB · Audiobook
- Authorisation
- Unauthorised — no subject, estate or label had approval over the text.
- Content notes
- sexual abuse of minors · trafficking · suicide
Contents · 20 chapters
- 01The FileRead free
- 02Sea Gate4,466 words
- 03Dalton2,525 words
- 04Bear Stearns2,680 words
- 05Wexner4,076 words
- 06The Townhouse3,911 words
- 07Maxwell6,287 words
- 08The Friends8,860 words
- 09The Operation6,415 words
- 10Palm Beach 20056,553 words
- 11The Acosta Deal3,670 words
- 12The Work Release1,858 words
- 13The Restoration5,193 words
- 14Julie Brown2,018 words
- 15Teterboro4,046 words
- 16August 104,804 words
- 17Maxwell Trial4,028 words
- 18The Files11,760 words
- 19The Inspector4,426 words
- 20The Voices8,913 words
The opening chapter is published in full — read it here.
Editions
- 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
Questions
01Who 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.
02Is 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.
03Can 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.
04How long is it?
About 98,000 words, 20 chapters, 333 pages in the paperback.
05What 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.
06Does 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
This book deals with
- sexual abuse of minors
- trafficking
- suicide
Listed before you buy, not after.
