That being said, I actually found myself quite eagerly diving into the stories, and it helped that the first was about wine fraud! After each one I needed to take a breather to really absorb what I had read and I ended up reading the book over two major sittings. Once this book arrived, I wasn’t sure if I would be interested in a series of academic essays about ‘rogues’.

“Keefe 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. The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event collected here for the first time readers can see how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them.” The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event collected here for the first time readers can see how his work forms an always enthralling yet also deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up to them.Rogues: True stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks Keefe 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. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker.Īs Keefe observes 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.’ Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has been recognised by prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford in the UK, for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. 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.

Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe