Patrick Radden Keefe

eBook, ePUB

Rogues (eBook, ePUB)

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Beschreibung

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing-and one of the most decorated journalists of our time-twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue "An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." -NPR "Fast-paced...Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller." -The Washington Post 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 whistleblower 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.

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Autor

PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize, 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 "10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade" by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385548526
• Artikelnr.: 62646543

Rezensionen

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

Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work. Observer