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Rogues : true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks / Patrick Radden Keefe.

True stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks (portion title)

Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- (author.).

Summary:

"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 "Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. ROGUES brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. 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 Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385548519
ISBN: 0385548516
Physical Description: xv, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:

""The pieces in this work originally appeared in a slightly different form in The New Yorker." -- Title page verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

Jefferson bottles : how could one collector find so much rare fine wine? -- Crime family : how a notorious Dutch gangster was exposed by his own sister -- Avenger : has the brother of a victim of a Lockerbie bombing finally solved the case? -- Empire of edge : how a doctor, a trader, and the billionaire Steven A. Cohen got entangled in a vast financial scandal -- A loaded gun : a mass shooter's tragic past -- Hunt for El Chapo : inside the capture of the world's most notorious drug lord -- Winning : how Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success -- Swiss bank heist : the computer technician who exposed a Geneva bank's darkest secrets -- Prince of Marbella : the decades-long battle to catch an elusive international arms broker -- Worst of the worst : Judy Clarke excelled at saving the lives of notorious killers. Then she took the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- Buried secrets : how an Israeli billionaire wrested control of one of Africa's biggest prizes -- Journeyman : Anthony Bourdain's movable feast.