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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 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

The story of the Sackler Dynasty, Purdue Pharma, and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, 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."—NPRPatrick 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'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.

"The pieces in this work originally appeared in a slightly different form in The New Yorker"--Copyright page.

Hva husker vi om konflikten i Nord-Irland? IRA og de britiske myndighetene kjempet i en borgerkrig som varte i over tre tiår. Konflikten gikk under navnet The Troubles.I desember 1972 ble tibarnsmoren Jean McConville bortført fra hjemmet sitt i Belfast, for aldri mer å bli sett i live. Forsvinningen hennes hjemsøker barna, gjerningsmennene og et helt samfunn i Nord-Irland i flere tiår.I denne grundig oppbygde boken skriver ikke Patrick Radden Keefe bare om en brutal forbrytelse, han skriver også et levende portrett av en verden der hendelser som dette dessverre var ganske vanlige. Tragedien til et helt land fanges opp i en fengslende fortelling fortalt gjennom livet til noen få personer.Si ingen ting vever historiene til Jean McConville og hennes familie sammen med Dolours Price sitt liv, den første kvinnen som ble med i IRA som soldat, som bombet puben Old Bailey mens hun knapt var ute av tenårene. Gerry Adams, som bidro til å få slutt på kampene, men benektet sin egen IRA-fortid, har også en fremtredende rolle i boken. Ved å beskrive konflikten og vanlige menneskers mange tragedier er Si ingen ting en ekstremt fengslende og sterk fortelling om hvor langt folk er villige til å følge sin politiske overbevisning, og hvordan bygge opp igjen et samfunn i kjølvannet av en lang og blodig konflikt. Dette er sakprosa på høyeste internasjonale nivå.