## JAMES PATTERSON

Epstein's Palm Beach neighbor-who was also a step-uncle of Vicky Ward's husband- to ask Ward to drop the story. But Ward was tenacious, and what she came back with was dynamite. More interesting and much more salacious than anything Carter had imagined.

Now Carter's staff was putting in the hours it would take to confirm all the things she'd uncovered, picking the ones they could publish and laying them all out in a narrative that would be no less explosive than the facts it contained.

## Vicky Ward: October

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