Description
| Product ID: | 9781035001743 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rogues |
| Subtitle: | True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks |
| Authors: | Author: Patrick Radden Keefe |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | True crime, True crime, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and ethical issues, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Reportage & collected journalism, Corruption in society, Corporate crime, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From award-winning, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe, a collection of his phenomenal essays published in the New Yorker, ranging from forgery to reality TV. <p><b>The <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</b><br><br><b>From the prize-winning, bestselling author of <i>Say Nothing</i> and <i>Empire of Pain</i>, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.<br><br>'Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting' - </b><i><b>The Observer</b></i><br><br>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. <i>Rogues</i> brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the <i>New Yorker</i>. 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.’<br><br>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.<br><br><b>The appearance of his byline in the <i>New Yorker</i> 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.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-07 |
