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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Doubleday

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Doubleday is an imprint of Transworld Publishers and publishes bestselling authors such as Bill Bryson, Joanne Harris, Terry Pratchett and Kate Atkinson in hardback.

Book information

ISBN: 9780385548519
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Doubleday
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 364.163
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20220201
Language: English
Number of pages: xv, 348
Weight: 675g
Height: 239mm
Width: 164mm
Spine width: 32mm