Rogues
True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Published on 13. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-0350-0176-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.
'A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours . . . Highly entertaining' - Los Angeles Times
Patrick Radden Keefe's work has been recognized by prizes including the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford for his meticulously reported and 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 observes in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies'.
Keefe 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 liar; 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 works of literary journalism.
The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event; collected here for the first time readers can see how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them.
'Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting ' - The 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
Patrick Radden Keefe's work has been recognized by prizes including the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford for his meticulously reported and 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 observes in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies'.
Keefe 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 liar; 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 works of literary journalism.
The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event; collected here for the first time readers can see how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them.
'Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting ' - The Observer
Reviews / Votes
Eminently 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 MaddowMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0350-0176-7 (9781035001767)
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E-Book
07/2022
Picador
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Person
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the bestsellers Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (a collection of his New Yorker stories) and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (named one of the 20 Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times and now streaming as a limited series 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, which The Guardian named the #1 podcast of 2020, and the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He lives in New York.