Irish Times  Patrick Radden Keefe: 'Gerry Adams is sort of similar to the Sacklers, in that he seems to sleep quite well at night.’

Patrick Freyne
2-July-2022

The long-form journalist reflects on a remarkable career investigating, among others, cartel bosses, arms dealers, mass shooters, fraudsters, whistleblowers and the Troubles.

Patrick Radden Keefe is an author who writes in deeply researched detail about a wide variety of dark subjects. His new book, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, collects some of his New Yorker journalism and includes stories about cartel bosses such as El Chapo, arms dealers such as Monzer al-Kassar and mass shooters such as Amy Bishop. There are also profiles of banking whistleblowers, reality TV moguls and wine fraudsters. His other books include Say Nothing, which explores the moral haze of the Troubles, and Empire of Pain about how the Sacklers, a family of billionaire art philanthropists, fomented the American opioid crisis with their company Purdue Pharma.

I interview Keefe while he’s participating in the Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas in the living room of Borris House. It’s a stately room with a grand piano and ornate furniture.

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Sleeping Quite Well At Night

Irish Times  Patrick Radden Keefe: 'Gerry Adams is sort of similar to the Sacklers, in that he seems to sleep quite well at night.’

Patrick Freyne
2-July-2022

The long-form journalist reflects on a remarkable career investigating, among others, cartel bosses, arms dealers, mass shooters, fraudsters, whistleblowers and the Troubles.

Patrick Radden Keefe is an author who writes in deeply researched detail about a wide variety of dark subjects. His new book, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, collects some of his New Yorker journalism and includes stories about cartel bosses such as El Chapo, arms dealers such as Monzer al-Kassar and mass shooters such as Amy Bishop. There are also profiles of banking whistleblowers, reality TV moguls and wine fraudsters. His other books include Say Nothing, which explores the moral haze of the Troubles, and Empire of Pain about how the Sacklers, a family of billionaire art philanthropists, fomented the American opioid crisis with their company Purdue Pharma.

I interview Keefe while he’s participating in the Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas in the living room of Borris House. It’s a stately room with a grand piano and ornate furniture.

Continue reading @ Irish Times.

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