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Rogues

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

June 28, 2022 | Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385675451
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Description

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of misbehavior and skullduggery by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.

"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, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Blowout
 
Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface, "They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial."
 
Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistle-blower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the "worst of the worst," among other bravura works of literary journalism.
 
The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.

About this Author

PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal; and was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of the decade by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been recognized with the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.
 

ISBN: 9780385675451
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2022-06-28

Reviews

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named one of the best books of 2022 by The New Yorker o The Washington Post o Esquire


"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

"A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours. . . . It's highly entertaining, of course, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe's fascination with what makes us human even when we're at our most imperfect." --Los Angeles Times

"Superlative. . . . Every one of these [essays] is a journalistic gem. Immensely enjoyable writing married with fascinating subjects makes this a must-read." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Keefe's skill as a writer and investigator is his ability to paint a vivid portrait, whether or not his subject chooses to speak with him." --The Irish Times

"Patrick Radden Keefe is a brilliant writer, and each of these pieces reminds you that this world and the people in it are more interesting, complicated and moving than you had allowed yourself to imagine. Rogues is a marvel, showcasing the work of a reporter at the absolute top of his game." --Daniel Alarcón, author of The King is Always Above the People

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