Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion Ghislaine Maxwell read my book at In-N-Out Burger. Then it sold out on Amazon.

August 16, 2019 at 6:23 p.m. EDT
Ghislaine Maxwell in New York in September 2013. (Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

Ted Gup, an author, journalist and fellow at Durham University in Britain, lives in Altamont, N.Y.

I have yet to get my promised 15 minutes of fame, but Thursday night brought me a good five minutes, when the elusive Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator in abusing underage girls, was spotted in a Los Angeles fast-food restaurant reading my book “The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives.”