Name: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
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Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
ISBN: 9780593467732

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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patrick Radden Keefe

Publisher

Anchor Books

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.2 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9780593467732

Synopsis "Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks "

The New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of the SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling--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

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Patrick Radden Keefe (Boston, 1976) is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of several non-fiction books: Chatter (2006), The Snakehead (2009), Say Nothing (2019, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize), Empire of Pain (2021, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize) and Rogues (2022). He has published articles in The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The New York Review of Books. In 2014, he received the National Magazine Award in the feature writing category for "A Loaded Gun" (included in Rogues) and was a finalist for the same award in the reporting category in 2015 and 2016. He is also the creator and narrator of the eight-episode podcast Wind of Change (2020)

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