Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the acclaimed author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue."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
"Rogues is a wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people."--NPR
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.
"A king of contemporary nonfiction." --Entertainment Weekly
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Snakehead and Chatter. He is also an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation. His work has also featured in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York, and The New York Review of Books, and he is a regular guest on NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. Patrick won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014 for his story A Loaded Gun, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and is a Guggenheim Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593467732 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593467736 |
| Title | Rogues |
| Author | Patrick Radden Keefe |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2023-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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