Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Biographical note
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Say Nothing: Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (now streaming on Disney+), as well as two previous critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead and Chatter. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change on the origins of the Scorpions’ power ballad. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.There are so many "they did what?" moments in this book, when <b>your jaw practically hits the page</b>
Sunday Times
This is no dense medical tome, but <b>a page-turner</b> with a villainous family to rival the Roys in <i>Succession</i>, and one where <b>every chapter ends with the perfect bombshell</b>.
Esquire
The story of the Sacklers and OxyContin is <b>a parable of the modern era of philanthropy being deployed to burnish the reputations of financiers and entrepreneurs</b> . . . [A] t<b>our-de-force</b>
Financial Times
<b>Put simply, this book will make your blood boil</b> . . . a devastating portrait of a family consumed by greed and unwilling to take the slightest responsibility or show the least sympathy for what it wrought . . . a highly readable and disturbing narrative.
- John Carreyrou, author of <i>Bad Blood</i>, New York Times Book Review
A<b>n engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion</b> . . . Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. <b>His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity.</b>
- Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
<b>A true tragedy in multiple acts</b>. It is the story of a family that lost its moorings and its morals . . . Written with novelistic family-dynasty and family-dynamic sweep, <i>Empire of Pain</i> is a pharmaceutical <i>Forsythe Saga</i>, a book that in its way is <b>addictive, with a page-turning forward momentum</b>.
- David M. Shribman, Boston Globe
<b>Explosive</b> . . . Keefe marshals a large pile of evidence and deploys it with prosecutorial precision . . . Keefe is a <b>gifted storyteller who excels at capturing personalities.</b>
Washington Post
An air-tight indictment of the family behind the opioid crisis . . . <b>[an] impressive exposé</b>
- Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
A <b>damning portrait of the Sacklers</b>, the billionaire clan behind the OxyContin epidemic . . . <b>[Keefe] has a knack for crafting lucid, readable descriptions</b> of the sort of arcane business arrangements the Sacklers favored.
- Laura Miller, Slate
Keefe has a way of <b>making the inaccessible incredibly digestible</b>, of <b>morphing complex stories into page-turning thrillers</b>, and he's done it again with <i>Empire of Pain . . . </i><b>equal parts juicy society gossip</b> and <b>historical record.</b>
- Seija Rankin, Entertainment Weekly