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.” Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. 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.

“Fast-paced.Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller.' - The Washington Post 'An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing.' -NPR

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.

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. 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.

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.’ Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has been recognised 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.

‘Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting’ – The Observerįrom 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.

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