“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

“Compulsively readable, imbued with narrative tension… [A]n excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing…demonstrates Keefe's immense skill as a storyteller…Rogues is a wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people. He recognizes that we're all unreliable narrators of our own lives, and writes about his subjects with a keen sense of understanding…This book is a joy to read.” — NPR

"[F]ull of extraordinary incidents and unpredictable turns of fate…Bourdain got a tattoo on his forearm of Montaigne’s motto, in ancient Greek: ‘I suspend judgment.’ Mr. Keefe is not so detached as that, but he does pay his unique subjects the compliment of his world-class attention, in works of deadline prose that shock, inform and entertain."—Wall Street Journal

“[A] superlative collection… Every one of these selections is a journalistic gem. Immensely enjoyable writing married with fascinating subjects makes this a must-read.”— Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

“A collection…of astounding variety, each more riveting and extraordinary than the last.” — Booklist (starred review)

“The literary style of New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe is already iconic…[In ROGUES] Keefe delivers masterpieces in miniature.” — Oprah Daily

“[A] fast-paced and frequently suspenseful read…Taken together, the essays reflect the collective preoccupations of the unsettling era in which we now live.” — Washington Post

“In this ‘greatest hits’ collection, the author of the acclaimed Empire of Pain stops at nothing in pursuit of the truth… Keefe is among the hallowed practitioners of American long-form journalism…[Y]ou can’t help but admire a preternaturally attentive reporter at work…Unforgettable.” — The Observer (UK)

“[A] marvel of a book, showcasing not just Keefe’s diverse interests but also his skill at marrying investigative journalism with terrific storytelling.” — Air Mail

“A new piece from Patrick Radden Keefe? I will drop everything to read it. Immediately…Keefe has established himself as one of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation… [ROGUES is] a reminder not only of just how good Keefe is as a journalist, but of the immense power of the magazine feature as a genre…thought-provoking, high stakes, utterly compulsive…Perhaps Keefe’s foremost gift as a writer is this comfort with ambiguity, the uneasy reminder that nothing is ever black and white. Despite seeking — and providing — answers, Keefe also recognizes that it is in the lingering questions, the unresolved, the greyness of moral complexity, that a story takes on its greatest power.” — Toronto Star

“A love letter to magazine writing done the old-fashioned way, with time, love and lots of money. If you like great journalism, want to be a journalist or are a journalist and want to be a better one, this is a book for you…They say long-form journalism is dying. Keefe shows it isn’t.” — The Sunday Times

“Enthralling…Patrick Radden Keefe is the Sherlock Holmes of long-form nonfiction, a relentless investigator who turns his reporting into irresistible storytelling.”—Tampa Bay Times

“Keefe is a brilliant storyteller.”—Irish Times

“A stunning collection of great journalism that often causes you to imagine any individual article would make a great Netflix series or movie. Keefe is a master of painting complex characters and telling intricate stories.”—Irish Independent

One of the 10 Best Books of 2021 - Washington Post, Slate, Amazon, Vulture, People, Entertainment Weekly Goodreads Choice Award Winner - History & Biography 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - TIME 5 Best Business Books of the Year - Fortune 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 - Los Angeles Times 10 Best History Books of 2021 - Smithsonian One of the Best Books of 2021 - New York Times, Time, The Economist, Boston Globe, Guardian, The Times (London), The Atlantic, Businessweek, Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Kirkus, Bookpage, Smithsonian, Fortune, Town & Country, New York Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Independent, LitHub, BuzzFeed, Daily Mail, ABC’s “The View” Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction Finalist for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A Barack Obama Favorite Book of the Year

“A tour-de-force” — Financial Times “Explosive” — Washington Post “An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion….Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodigious reporting to speak for itself. His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity” — New York Times "Empire Of Pain is a milestone in investigative journalism and a masterpiece of storytelling, a family saga of greed and grandeur that stands comparison with Zola and Balzac." — Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday “A true tragedy in multiple acts…A book that in its way is addictive, with a page-turning forward momentum” — The Boston Globe “An airtight indictment of the family behind the opioid crisis” — Los Angeles Times "Keefe has a way of making the inaccessible incredibly digestible, of morphing complex stories into page-turning thrillers, and he's done it again with EMPIRE OF PAIN…A scathing — but meticulously reported — takedown...equal parts juicy society gossip and historical record of how they built their dynasty and eventually pushed Oxy onto the market” — Entertainment Weekly “A Shakespearean tale…[This] kind of journalism remains the reason why even the greatest of fortunes can’t buy the one thing its heirs want most: secrecy” — Air Mail “A damning portrait… If you are someone who engages in this kind of sneaky conduct, the last person you want reporting on you is Keefe….[He] has a knack for crafting lucid, readable descriptions of the sort of arcane business arrangements the Sacklers favored. He is also indefatigable….The Sackler infighting described in Empire of Pain will surely prompt many comparisons to the HBO series Succession” — Slate “Empire of Pain reads like a real-life thriller, a page-turner, a deeply shocking dissection of avarice and calculated callousness… Epic… It is the measure of great and fearless investigative writing that it achieves retribution where the law could not…written with grace and gravity, Empire of Pain unpeels a most terrible American scandal. You feel almost guilty for enjoying it so much” — The Times “Put simply, this book will make your blood boil….a devastating portrait of a family consumed by greed and unwilling to take the slightest responsibility or show the least sympathy for what it wrought….a highly readable and disturbing narrative” — New York Times Book Review “[A] work of nonfiction that has the dramatic scope and moral power of a Victorian novel. It’s about corruption that is so profitable no one wants to see it and denial so embedded it’s almost hereditary.” — The Observer (UK) “Patrick Radden Keefe, one of the top narrative nonfiction authors of his generation, offers an engrossing and deeply reported book about the Sackler family…A great American morality tale” — TIME (Best Books of 2021 So Far) “Astonishing” — The Irish Times “In Keefe’s account, [the Sacklers] resurface as individual characters, with biographies and motivations and feuds. The result will undo decades of philanthropic effort to link the Sackler name with public good…He forces The Family into the light” — New York “Lucid, unrelenting…A mammoth undertaking” — The New Republic “Deeply reported” — Jewish Insider “A page-turning corporate biography…Jaw-dropping” — Booklist (starred review) “A definitive, damning, urgent tale… Excellent” — Kirkus (starred review) “Richly detailed and vividly written. Readers will be outraged and enthralled in equal measure” — Publisher’s Weekly (starred review) “Excellent” — The Economist “The Sacklers seem to have had good reason to try to do everything in their power to stop this book being published…There are so many ‘they did what?’ moments in this book, when your jaw practically hits the page” — The Sunday Times “Magnificent…lush with details” — The Guardian “I thought that it would be hard to match the achievement of Say Nothing—but, boy, did he match it” — The Atlantic “[A] stranger-than-fiction tale. Keefe makes an already astounding story even more awe-inducing with his rich writing as he delves into the enigmatic family behind an American crisis” — Newsweek “A journalistic tour de force, and much more than a saga of corporate depravity” — The Australian “[A] searing analysis of the opioid epidemic… [Keefe] anatomises how the phenomenon of chronic pain was weaponised by a pharmaceutical company…The results were devastating” — The Lancet “Rigorously reported and brilliantly executed…an important, necessary book” — Vulture “This is no dense medical tome, but a page-turner with a villainous family to rival the Roys on Succession, and one where every chapter ends with the perfect bombshell” — Esquire (Best Books of 2021) “It would be hard to match the achievement of Say Nothing—but, boy, did he match it. Empire of Pain is an epic intergenerational story of the Sackler family and how they came to own a company and create a product that, in many ways, helped create the opioid crisis. Keefe is the rare writer who can pull together countless legal and archival documents and interview transcripts to create a nonfiction work that reads like a thriller” — The Atlantic (What to Read This Summer)

SAY NOTHING: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MEMORY IN NORTHERN IRELAND
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

• A New York Times Bestseller

• Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

• Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing

• Winner of the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations

• Selected as one of the “10 Best Books of the Year” by The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Slate, and NPR’s Fresh Air

• Selected by President Barack Obama as a “Favorite Book of 2019”

• “The Best History Book of 2019” - Amazon.com

• “#1 Nonfiction Book of the Year” - TIME

• Selected as one of the “10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade” by Entertainment Weekly

• Selected as a Best Book of the Year by the Economist • Apple • BuzzFeed • Kirkus • GQ • Variety • Library Journal • London Times • Minneapolis Star Tribune • St. Louis Post Dispatch • BookPage • Vanity Fair • The Atlantic • BuzzFeed • Daily Beast • Foreign Affairs • Just Security • New York Post • Huffington Post • The Guardian • The Week • Dallas Morning News • Hudson News • The Strand • The New York Public Library and others

• Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

• Longlisted for the National Book Award

• Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• Finalist for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize

• Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

• Selected by Literary Hub as one of the “20 Best Works of Nonfiction in the Decade”

• Selected by CrimeReads as one of the “10 Best True Crime Books of the Decade”

• Currently in development as a limited dramatic series from F/X and the producers of “American Crime Story” and “The Hunger Games”

“Meticulously reported…Keefe’s outsider perspective is what gives ‘Say Nothing’ its exacting and terrifying lucidity…Keefe’s narrative is an architectural feat, expertly constructed out of complex and contentious material, arranged and balanced just so…This sensitive and judicious book raises some troubling, and perhaps unanswerable, questions. Does moving forward from an anguished past require some sort of revisitation and reckoning? Or are certain memories so perilous that they’re better left buried and ignored?”

—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

“If it seems as if I’m reviewing a novel, it is because SAY NOTHING has lots of the qualities of good fiction… Keefe is a terrific storyteller. It might seem odd, even offensive, to state it, but he brings his characters to real life. The book is cleverly structured. We follow people — victim, perpetrator, back to victim — leave them, forget about them, rejoin them decades later. It can be read as a detective story…I wondered as I read if Keefe was going to carry it off. He does… SAY NOTHING is an excellent account of the Troubles. It might also be a warning.”

—Roddy Doyle, The New York Times Book Review

“A gripping and profoundly human explanation for a past that still denies and defines the future…Only an outsider could have written a book this good. Irish or British writers are tainted by provenance... I can’t praise this book enough: it’s erudite, accessible, compelling, enlightening."

—Melanie Reid, The Times (UK)

“Extraordinary. Powerful. Panoramic… If Keefe had only focused on McConville’s kidnapping and murder, SAY NOTHING would have been a mesmerizing true crime story. But instead, McConville’s disappearance is ‘merely’ the mystery at the center of a web of disturbing stories. Smoothly wound together, they compose an epic account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland…I kept thinking of COMMON GROUND, J. Anthony Lukas’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Boston school desegregation battles of the 1970s. That’s about the highest compliment I can pay to any work of reportorial non-fiction. Like Lukas, Keefe is a storyteller, who captures the complexities of a historical moment by digging deep into the lives of people on all sides of the conflict…At the end, as in most ingenious crime stories, Keefe unveils a revelation—lying, so to speak, in plain sight—that only further complicates the moral dimensions of his tale.”

—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s “Fresh Air”

“Say Nothing is the best book on Northern Ireland that I know of. It may seem inappropriate to say so, given the true horrors it recounts, but it does read like a thriller, while at the same time portraying in full the tragedy of those terrible years of tribal warfare in what had been a forgotten corner of Europe. A dark masterpiece.”

—John Banville

“Compulsively readable, equal parts true-crime thriller and political history. The book often reads like a novel, but as anyone familiar with his work for The New Yorker can attest, Keefe is an obsessive reporter and researcher, a master of narrative nonfiction.”

—Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone

“Breathtaking in scope and ambition...Keefe has produced a searing examination of the nature of truth in war and the toll taken by violence and deceit. The result is a lyrically written work that will take its place alongside the best of the books about the Troubles...An unrelenting, epic work.” 

—Toby Harnden, The Sunday Times (UK)

“A true-crime masterpiece…The book is empathetic, brilliantly constructed and unlikely to be surpassed as a document of what happened in Northern Ireland and how sectarian violence echoes long after the fighting has stopped.”

—TIME (100 Must-Read Books of 2019)

“A harrowing story of politically motivated crime that could not have been better told.”

—Kirkus (Starred Review)

“Keefe blends threads of espionage, murder mystery, and political history into a single, captivating narrative, deftly turning a complicated and often dark subject into a riveting and informative page-turner that will engage readers of both true crime and popular history.”

—Library Journal (Starred Review)

“A real-life whodunnit…moving, accessible…The author’s dogged detective work enables him to plausibly name those who literally pulled the trigger. Tinged with immense sadness, this work never loses sight of the humanity of even those who committed horrible acts in support of what they believed in.”

—Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review)

“Masterly reportage. A searing reflection on the Troubles and their aftermath…The discerning skill with which Keefe gets inside these characters’ minds may unsettle some readers, but it is also his book’s strength. He shows how people who in peacetime might just have been strong-willed or colorful types came to condone or perpetrate the unspeakable.”

—The Economist

“Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation.”
—David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon

“Equal parts true crime, history, and tragedy. A must read.”
—Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

“The year’s most gripping nonfiction title is an account of Northern Ireland’s Troubles that doubles as an unforgettable murder mystery…a nonfiction smash comparable to David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon…Say Nothing is as much a thriller as it is a meditation on morality and radicalism.”

—Entertainment Weekly

"Say Nothing is a potent work. There is character and plot and pace to the narration. Keefe, over his seven visits to Northern Ireland for the book, developed a real feel for the place and the people.”

—The Irish Times

"Exceptional...Keefe is a talented writer for The New Yorker and an unaffiliated Irish-American...Say Nothing renders his ambivalence into fierce reporting. Whereas previous histories of the Troubles...could take on numbingly encyclopedic qualities, Mr. Keefe presents the conflict through narrative....Keefe’s greatest contribution in Say Nothing is to separate the romance of Irish nationalism from the horror of political terrorism."

—The Wall Street Journal

"Assiduous journalism...However small the Troubles may have been, Northern Ireland remains a laboratory of protracted communal violence, relevant to conflicts on any scale...Keefe’s fine, searching book shows that a political agreement formally resolving a conflict marks only the beginning of a long, agonizing, and fitful process of reconciliation."

—Foreign Affairs

"Keefe’s sweeping, switchblade-sharp narrative explores the terror and abiding grief at the heart of sectarian violence. To his credit, Keefe doesn’t attempt a traditional history of Ireland’s woes. Instead, in Say Nothing he has produced a nonfiction masterpiece."

—Los Angeles Review of Books

"As a cautionary tale, Say Nothing speaks volumes — about the zealotry of youth, the long-term consequences of violence and the politics of forgetting."

—The Washington Post

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