Rogues True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
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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: A True Story of 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, which The Guardian named the #1 podcast of 2020. 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.Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work.
Observer
A new book by Keefe means <b>drop everything and close the blinds</b>; you’ll be turning pages for hours . . . <b>Highly entertaining</b>’
Los Angeles Times
Keefe follows his award-winning opus with a collection of 12 pen portraits . . . that are no less compelling for being sketched on a smaller canvas.
Financial Times ‘Best Summer Books of 2022’
Reflects the collective preoccupations of the unsettling era in which we now live:<b> </b>mass shootings and terrorism, mental health issues, and the many flavors of financial corruption . . . <b>Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller</b>, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how these crimes unfolded.
Washington Post
<b>Each [piece] could be a book in its own right</b> . . . [Keefe] has an eye for the smallest detail that reveals something big.
Sunday Times
A wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people.
National Public Radio
Extraordinary
Wall Street Journal
One of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation
Toronto Star
A king of contemporary nonfiction
Entertainment Weekly
Iconic . . . Keefe delivers masterpieces
Oprah Daily
I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he’s a national treasure.
- Rachel Maddow,