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. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks a book by Patrick Radden Keefe 25,137,675.31 raised for local bookstores Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks Patrick Radden Keefe (Author) FORMAT Hardcover English 30.00 27.90 Paperback English Large Print 32.00 29. 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.

One of his old friends called it a documentarian’s song. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker.Īs 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.' Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. 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. Rogues: True Stories Of Grifters Killers Rebels And Crooks es una libro escrito por Patrick Radden Keefe. From 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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