True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
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Köp båda 2 för 471 krEminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting . . . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work. * Observer * A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; youll be turning pages for hours . . . Highly entertaining * Los Angeles Times * Keefe follows his award-winning opus with a collection of 12 pen portraits . . . that are no less compelling for being sketched on a smaller canvas. * Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2022 * Reflects the collective preoccupations of the unsettling era in which we now live: mass shootings and terrorism, mental health issues, and the many flavors of financial corruption . . . Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how these crimes unfolded. * Washington Post * Each [piece] could be a book in its own right . . . [Keefe] has an eye for the smallest detail that reveals something big. * Sunday Times * A wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people. * National Public Radio * Extraordinary * Wall Street Journal * 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 * I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . hes a national treasure. -- Rachel Maddow
Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two critically-acclaimed books, The Snakehead, and Chatter. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change on the origins of the Scorpions power ballad, which The Guardian named the #1 podcast of 2020. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015 and 2016, and also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He grew up in Boston and now lives in New York.