Hunting Ghislaine sounds aggressively anachronistic, given that we know exactly where the woman is: she’s serving 20 years for child sex trafficking in a US federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida. The book’s title stems from a well-received podcast of the same name that my former Observer colleague, the inimitable John Sweeney, produced a couple of years ago.
The research from that endeavour informs much of this work. The question is, though, is there anything about the wretched Maxwell that we don’t already know? After all, her trial was closely covered by the international media, she has been the subject of several podcasts, a number of documentaries, she’s been Netflixed, she featured prominently in the Virginia Giuffre case against Prince Andrew (settled out of court for many millions of dollars), and there are six books, not including this one, that I can find devoted to her.
