NONFICTION: Keefe s essays reflect this unsettling era of mass shootings and terrorism, unaddressed mental health issues and many types of financial corruption.
In most of his previous bestselling books, including "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" and "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty," journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has masterfully illuminated what he calls his "abiding preoccupations." These are, namely, "crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial."
A dozen of the writer’s New Yorker articles have been packaged into "Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks," capturing his fascination with crime and corruption, family bonds, and the power of denial.