Rogues : true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385548519
- Physical Description: xv, 348 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York [New York] : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The pieces in this work originally appeared in a slightly different form in The New Yorker"--Copyright page. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The 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 -- The avenger: has the brother of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing finally solved the case? -- The 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 -- The 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 -- The Prince of Marbella: the decades-long battle to catch an elusive international arms broker -- The 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. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Swindlers and swindling. Swindlers and swindling. Crime. Crime. Investigative reporting. Investigative reporting > United States. American literature. Reportage literature, American. |
Genre: | True crime stories. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Upper Skagit Library | 364.163 KEE | 1013814 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the â10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decadeâ by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.