Description
Book SynopsisPatrick 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.
Trade ReviewEminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work. * Observer *
A new book by Keefe means
drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours . . .
Highly entertaining’ * 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:
mass shootings and terrorism, mental health issues, and the many flavors of financial corruption . . .
Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how these crimes unfolded. * Washington Post *
Each [piece] could be a book in its own right . . . [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
