Patrick Radden Keefe 3 Books Collection Set (Rogues, The Snakehead, Empire of Pain)

Patrick Radden Keefe 3 Books Collection Set brings together three works of nonfiction by Patrick Radden Keefe, an investigative journalist and New Yorker staff writer. Across the collection, he examines power, crime, corruption, and the pursuit of truth through reported accounts of real-life events.

Including Rogues, The Snakehead, and Empire of Pain, the set spans subjects from global crime networks and political corruption to the opioid crisis. The writing combines investigative reporting with narrative storytelling, drawing on Keefe’s long-standing interest in crime and corruption, secrets and lies.

Included titles

• Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
• The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Key details

• Three-book nonfiction collection by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Rogues brings together a dozen articles from the New Yorker
• Empire of Pain examines the Sackler dynasty and Oxycontin
• The Snakehead investigates a people-smuggling operation linked to New York’s Chinatown

Synopses

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Rogues collects a dozen of Keefe’s most celebrated New Yorker articles, reflecting on his preoccupations with crime and corruption, secrets and lies. The pieces range from forged vintage wines and a Swiss bank whistleblower to an international black-market arms merchant, as well as a death-penalty attorney representing the ‘worst of the worst’.

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

The Snakehead investigates a secret world run by a charismatic middle-aged grandmother who operated a multimillion-dollar people-smuggling business from a noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown. It explores Cheng Chui Ping, also known as Sister Ping, and recounts a decade-long FBI investigation, alongside the pursuit by an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS.

The book also portrays a generation of undocumented immigrants and the underground economy that sustains and exploits them.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Empire of Pain examines the Sackler family, whose name appears across institutions including Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and whose wealth was long unclear. It details how the family were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, described as a catalyst for the opioid crisis, an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.

Presented as a work of narrative reporting, it is described as the story of a dynasty and twenty-first-century greed.