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"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
"Rogues is a wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people. ... This book is a joy to read."
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"A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours. "Rogues" is a collection of Keefe's New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. It's highly entertaining, of course, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe's fascination with what makes us human even when we're at our most imperfect."
-- Los Angeles Times
"Rogues is a wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people."
-- NPR
"Rogues is a fast-paced and frequently suspenseful read...Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how those crimes unfolded."
-- The Washington Post
"Extraordinary"
-- Wall Street Journal
"Patrick Radden Keefe is the Sherlock Holmes of long-form nonfiction, a relentless investigator who turns his reporting into irresistible storytelling."
-- Tampa Bay Times
"One of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation."
-- Toronto Star
"A king of contemporary nonfiction."
-- Entertainment Weekly
"Iconic...Keefe delivers masterpieces."
-- Oprah Daily
"[Keefe] excels at shining a beam into the murky inner workings of the world and the human psyche. It's a superpower that produces riveting and revealing tales that, as Keefe writes in the preface, may help us better fathom our own inner workings."
-- Nashville Scene
"[Keefe] makes full use of journalistic tools for fact-finding: keen observation, meticulous research and insightful interviews ... As a result, each essay is a taut, highly honed yet powerful reflection on the creative and corrosive effects of obsession."
-- Bookpage (starred)
"From the prize-winning, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing--and one of the most decorated journalists of our time--twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue."
-- Bookshop