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The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.
The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions – Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.
In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.
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.
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.
'Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with
gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that
it's all true.' Time In this thrilling panorama of real-life
events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a
secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic
middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's
Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.
In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings
of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping's complex empire and recounts
the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down.
He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it
pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America,
and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of
undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that
sustains and exploits them. Grand in scope yet propulsive in
narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story
and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in
America.
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK
OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR
NONFICTION 2019 TIME's #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLER 'A must read' Gillian Flynn One night in December
1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home
in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would
haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime
and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. Through the
unsolved case of Jean McConville's abduction, Patrick Radden Keefe
tells the larger story of the Troubles, investigating Dolours
Price, the first woman to join the IRA, who bombed the Old Bailey;
Gerry Adams, the politician who helped end the fighting but denied
his IRA past; and Brendan Hughes, an IRA commander who broke their
code of silence. A gripping story forensically reported, Say
Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and
the way societies mend - or don't - after long and bloody conflict.
'10 Best Books of 2019' - The New York Times, Washington Post,
Chicago Tribune, Slate, NPR's Fresh Air 'Best History Book of 2019'
- Amazon '10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019' - TIME '10 Best
Nonfiction Books of the Decade' - Entertainment Weekly '20 Best
Nonfiction Books of the Decade' - Literary Hub '10 Best True Crime
Books of the Decade' - CrimeReads
The inspiration behind the Netflix tv series Painkillers, starring
Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Now on
BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford
Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial
Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award One of Barack
Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the Crime Writers'
Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction The gripping and shocking
story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in
the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. 'One of
those authors I will always read, no matter what the subject
matter, which is why I gobbled up Empire of Pain . . . a
masterclass in compelling narrative nonfiction.' - Elizabeth Day,
The Guardian '30 Best Summer Reads' 'You feel almost guilty for
enjoying it so much' - The Times The Sackler name adorns the walls
of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of
Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in
the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the
sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however,
until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and
marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst
for the opioid crisis - an international epidemic of drug addiction
which has killed nearly half a million people. In this masterpiece
of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and
host of the Wind of Change podcast Patrick Radden Keefe
exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling
reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of
twenty-first-century greed.
'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 Patrick Radden Keefe's work has
garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the
National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in
the UK 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.
"Montgomery's photographs capture the reality of Americans in
crisis, in all our flawed, tragic, ridiculous glory." -Patrick
Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the
Sackler Dynasty American Mirror is award-winning photographer
Philip Montgomery's dramatic chronicle of the United States at a
time of profound change. Through his intimate and powerful
reporting and a signature black-and-white style, Montgomery reveals
the fault lines in American society, from police violence and the
opioid addiction crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the
demonstrations in support of Black lives. Yet in his unflinching
images, we also see moments of grace and sacrifice, glimmers of
solidarity and tireless advocates for democracy. Like Dorothea
Lange and Walker Evans before him, Montgomery has made an
unforgettable testament of a nation at a crossroads.
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely
international crime boss
In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving
in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up
with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable
belief in the promise of the United States. Many of them lived in a
world outside the law, working in a shadow economy overseen by the
ruthless gangs that ruled the narrow streets of New York's
Chinatown.
The figure who came to dominate this Chinese underworld was a
middle-aged grandmother known as Sister Ping. Her path to the
American dream began with an unusual business run out of a tiny
noodle store on Hester Street. From her perch above the shop,
Sister Ping ran a full-service underground bank for illegal Chinese
immigrants. But her real business-a business that earned an
estimated $40 million-was smuggling people.
As a "snakehead," she built a complex--and often vicious--global
conglomerate, relying heavily on familial ties, and employing one
of Chinatown's most violent gangs to protect her power and profits.
Like an underworld CEO, Sister Ping created an intricate smuggling
network that stretched from Fujian Province to Hong Kong to Burma
to Thailand to Kenya to Guatemala to Mexico. Her ingenuity and
drive were awe-inspiring both to the Chinatown community--where she
was revered as a homegrown Don Corleone--and to the law enforcement
officials who could never quite catch her.
Indeed, Sister Ping's empire only came to light in 1993 when the
"Golden Venture," a ship loaded with 300 undocumented immigrants,
ran aground off a Queens beach. It took New York's fabled "Jade
Squad" and the FBI nearly ten years to untangle the criminal
network and home in on its unusual mastermind.
THE SNAKEHEAD is a panoramic tale of international intrigue and a
dramatic portrait of the underground economy in which America's
twelve million illegal immigrants live. Based on hundreds of
interviews, Patrick Radden Keefe's sweeping narrative tells the
story not only of Sister Ping, but of the gangland gunslingers who
worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who
pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked
death and braved a 17,000 mile odyssey so that they could realize
their own version of the American dream. "The Snakehead" offers an
intimate tour of life on the mean streets of Chinatown, a vivid
blueprint of organized crime in an age of globalization and a
masterful exploration of the ways in which illegal immigration
affects us all.
www.doubleday.com
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year BEST NONFICTION
BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF THE BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE
YEAR - WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK
CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED
FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Masked intruders dragged Jean
McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast
home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book -- as finely paced
as a novel -- Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the
history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on
both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and
waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga. - New York
Times Book Review, Ten Best Books of the Year From award-winning
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate
narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its
devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a
thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast
home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They
never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious
episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in
the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate
of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years
after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set
of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children
knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was
attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it
handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's
mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its
aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale
of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose
consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence
seared not only people like the McConville children, but also
I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the
goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the
killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple
murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as
Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was
already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for
execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to
the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry
Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades
by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of
passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.
The New York Times Bestseller From the prize-winning, 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. 'Eminently bingeable, religiously
fact-checked and seductively globetrotting' - The Observer Patrick
Radden Keefe's work has been recognized by prizes ranging from the
National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
in the US to the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford in the UK,
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 observes
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 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; 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.
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