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COMING APRIL 2026: a new book, LONDON FALLING: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth.
NOW STREAMING from FX and Color Force, SAY NOTHING, a 9-part dramatic series, on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney Plus internationally. Winner of a Peabody Award, a USC Scripter Award, and 4 Irish Academy Awards, nominated for 4 BAFTAs and a Writers Guild Award.
ROGUES: True Stories of Grifters, Killers Rebels and Crooks. A New York Times Bestseller. “A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours.” — Los Angeles Times “[A] superlative collection… Every one of these selections is a journalistic gem. Immensely enjoyable… 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 “Wonderful…This book is a joy to read.” — NPR
EMPIRE OF PAIN: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. A New York Times bestseller. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. A Barack Obama Favorite Book of the Year. One of the 10 Best Books of 2021 — The Washington Post, Amazon, Slate, Vulture, People, Entertainment Weekly “[O]ne 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) “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) "We were completely bowled over as a group of judges by Patrick Radden Keefe's Empire of Pain. By its moral rigour, its controlled fury, its exhaustive research, the skillful writing, the bravery it took to write it. Above all, though, by its sheer propulsive narrative energy. This is an exceptionally important story Keefe has mined in Empire of Pain, but what impressed us most was the skill with which he has told his jaw-dropping tale, and how immersive and unputdownable he has made the telling. This is journalism as outstanding literature, and what we have here is a future classic." — Andrew Holgate, chair of judges, Baillie Gifford Prize
8-part podcast WIND OF CHANGE, a wild story about Cold War espionage and 1980s hair metal, produced by Pineapple Street Studios and Crooked Media. Named the #1 Podcast of 2020 by Entertainment Weekly and the Guardian. "A thrilling ride"—Vulture “This Is Spinal Tap meets All the President's Men"—Deadline "Hugely entertaining and wildly addictive"—Financial Times "A roller-coaster ride"—Elle "Full of tightly edited twists and turns"—New York Times “The perfect yarn for a podcast”—The Economist “Beautifully constructed. I burned through it in a day and loved every minute"—The Guardian
SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Arthur Ross Gold Medal from the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. A Barack Obama favorite book of the year. A Dua Lipa Book Club pick. One of the “20 Best Books of the 21st Century” — New York Times “A true-crime masterpiece.” TIME “The year’s most gripping nonfiction title…An unforgettable murder mystery.” Entertainment Weekly “Breathtaking in scope and ambition…An unrelenting, epic work.” The Sunday Times
"Say Nothing is the best book on Northern Ireland that I know of… A dark masterpiece." John Banville