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. Readers of Rogues are hereby encouraged to fasten their seatbelts. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. he's a national treasure.' Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe's work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Stories exhaustively researched and succinctly told.
For even the most corrupt and morally compromised subjects featured here, the author has a real skill in getting the reader to identify with them and feel empathy for them. Every time he writes an article, I read it. I just loved reading all of these stories, some of them so unbelievable they could only be true.
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