Nick Bryant is a writer whose work has focused on the plight of disadvantaged children in the United States, and he has been published in numerous national journals, as well as mainstream magazines. Bryant spent seven years investigating a child sex trafficking network that resulted in The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse, and Betrayal. Bryant is the coauthor of Confessions of a DC Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail. He also published Epstein's "Little Black Book" in 2015, four years before the case broke nationally, and he has written extensively on the topic.