Patrick Radden Keefe

"Bättre än så här blir det inte. Stäng av mobilen, lägg dig på soffan och du kan se fram emot en oslagbar läsupplevelse."Ingalill Mosander, Aftonbladet”Historierna speglar det som alltid intresserat mig: brott och korruption, hemligheter och lögner, det genomsläppliga membranet som skiljer de laglydigasvärld från de laglösas värld.”I "Gangsters" har Patrick Radden Keefe samlat sina mest minnesvärda reportage från The New Yorker, där han varit verksam i mer än ett decennium. Han skriver om visselblåsare och vapenhandlare, knarkkungar och bedragare, och vad som förenar porträtten är Radden Keefes osvikliga förmåga att finna oförglömliga levnadsöden som bryter mot alla invanda föreställningar om hur vi människor fungerar.

Älä sano mitään ja Kivun valtakunta -teoksista tunnetun, kertovan tietokirjallisuuden mestarin uutuus selvittää oligarkin poikana esiintyneen nuoren miehen kuolemaa. 19-vuotias Zac Brettler menehtyi marraskuussa 2019 hypättyään lontoolaisen luksusasunnon parvekkeelta. Hänen vanhemmilleen selvisi vasta sen jälkeen, että poika oli verkostoitunut kaupungin alamaailmaan ja esiintynyt uusille tuttavilleen venäläisen oligarkin poikana. Zacin kuolemaa edeltäneet tapahtumat asunnossa ovat edelleen selvittämättä, ja omaiset uskovat poliisin pimittävän heiltä tietoja. Huippujournalisti ja palkittu tietokirjailija Patrick Radden Keefe hahmottelee yhden perheen tragedian taustalle ihmisten ja tapahtumien laajan rihmaston. Esiin kutoutuu mestarillinen, romaanin lailla ahmittava tietokirja. Sen keskiössä kohoaa kuhiseva Lontoo, valtapiirien risteyskohta ja globaalien kehityskulkujen polttopiste jo vuosisatojen ajan.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comesa stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city

From the Baillie Gifford Prize-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing comes a stunning story of wealth, violence and deceit at the heart of a glittering city. ‘One of those authors I will always read, no matter what the subject matter . . . a masterclass in compelling narrative non-fiction’ – The Guardian on Empire of Pain In 2019, a London teenager, Zac Brettler, mysteriously fell to his death from a luxury apartment building on the banks of the Thames. When his grieving parents began their desperate quest to understand how their son had died, they made a terrible discovery: Zac had been leading a fantasy life, posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. In his inimitably gripping and forensic prose, Baillie Gifford Prize winner and New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe follows Zac’s parents on a dark journey to find out what brought Zac to the balcony that night – and how a teenager’s world of make-believe drew him into the city’s terrifying underworld. London Falling is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London's glittering surface In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain's spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river. In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead. In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. He had his troubles, but in no way seemed suicidal. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as "Indian Dave." As the Brettlers set about investigating their son's death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they'd always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac's life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable--or unwilling--to bring the perpetrators to justice. In a bravura feat of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the Brettlers' quest, peeling back layers of mystery and exposing the seedy truths behind the glamorous London of posh mansions and private nightclubs, a city in which everything is for sale, and aspirational fantasies are underwritten by dirty money and corruption. London Falling is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by suspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a parent today, a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.

El libro que ha inspirado una mini serie en Hulu. UNA HISTORIA REAL DE CRIMEN Y MEMORIA EN IRLANDA DEL NORTE. Mejor libro del a o 2019 seg n el New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times y Time Magazine. UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DE 2020 SEG N EL MUNDO, EL PA S Y EL PERI DICO. «No est claro si es una novela o un ensayo, pero est bastante claro que No digas nada es un libro de terror. O una caja de nitroglicerina. O una bomba de relojer a. ...] Se lee con congoja y con pavor, ...] una prosa trepidante y carnosa, a la altura de una intensidad que refleja la virulencia de una guerra 'in crescendo'. --Rub n Am n, El Confidencial «Leer o releer ahora el libro de Keefe es, pues, oportun simo. ...] Te dejar como si te hubieran dado una paliza. --Antoni Maria Piqu , El Nacional GANADOR DEL NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD GANADOR DEL PREMIO ORWELL FINALISTA DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD En diciembre de 1972, varios encapuchados secuestraron a Jean McConville, una viuda de treinta y ocho a os con diez hijos a su cargo. Nadie dud , en aquel barrio cat lico de Belfast, que se trataba de una represalia del IRA. Sin embargo, el crimen no empez a resolverse hasta 2003, cinco a os despu s de los acuerdos de paz del Viernes Santo, al ser desenterrados los restos mortales de McConville en una playa solitaria. Cuando Patrick Radden Keefe se propuso investigar las ramificaciones de este caso, ignoraba que terminar a escribiendo una cr nica total sobre el conflicto norirland s que ha sido aclamada de manera un nime. Entrevist ndose con decenas de testimonios, muchos de los cuales nunca antes hab an dado su versi n, retrata la profesionalizaci n de las milicias republicanas, la represi n del Estado brit nico, la escalada de violencia y, sobre todo, la evoluci n ideol gica de algunos de sus protagonistas. Por ejemplo, la de Dolours Price, que se enrol en el IRA a temprana edad y estuvo implicada, entre otros atentados, en la ejecuci n de Jean McConville. Enmarcado en la mejor tradici n del periodismo narrativo y la no ficci n literaria, No digas nada es un libro que a na historia, pol tica y biograf a, y que sondea las dimensiones morales de un conflicto que, medio siglo despu s todav a levanta ampollas. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Now a miniseries on Hulu One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal, EW, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune, GQ, Slate, NPR, Variety, Slate, TIME, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Dallas Morning News, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage Named a best book of the decade by Literary Hub and EW "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book -- as finely paced as a novel -- Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." - New York Times Book Review, Ten Best Books of the Year From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.

**Mejor libro del a o seg n Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle y la American Library Association** **Finalista del Gold Dagger Award en categor a de no ficci n y del Lukas Prize de la Facultad de Periodismo de Columbia** «Una historia compleja, narrada con tanto talento y gusto por el misterio y los giros de guion que por momentos se lee como una novela de John le Carr . -The Washington Post «Una mezcla de El Padrino y Chinatown, aderezada con tiroteos, una mafiosa despiadada y una gran monta a de dinero. Con la salvedad de que todo aqu es real . -Time Patrick Radden Keefe nos introduce en Cabeza de serpiente en el mundo subterr neo del tr fico de personas. El primero de los hilos de esta historia nos lleva al incre ble periplo del Golden Venture, el barco que embarranc en la pen nsula de Rockaway, cerca de Nueva York, en la madrugada del 6 de junio de 1993, cargado con m s de trescientos inmigrantes chinos sin documentaci n, retransmitido en directo a casi todo el mundo. En el centro de aquel suceso operaba una ins lita criminal: una mujer de mediana edad y completamente anodina llamada Cheng Chui Ping que, desde la trastienda de un peque o bazar en Chinatown, construy a o tras a o un imperio multimillonario. El sue o americano solo pod a empezar bien si trabajabas con la Hermana Ping, la mayor «cabeza de serpiente de Estados Unidos, alguien capaz de organizar el pasaje de miles y miles de compatriotas a cambio de peque as fortunas. Otros hilos de esta historia nos muestran guerras de bandas (entre las que destacaban los violentos miembros de la Fuk Ching), los circuitos del dinero negro hacia la provincia de Fujian, algunos fallos internos de las organizaciones estadounidenses -como el SIN- que vigilan las fronteras, o el FBI investigando durante d cadas a los «cabezas de serpiente y sus infructuosos esfuerzos por detenerlos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million-dollar business smuggling people. "Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it's all true." --Time Keefe reveals the inner workings of Sister Ping's complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way, he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of illegal immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them. Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.

From award-winning, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe, a collection of his phenomenal essays published in the New Yorker, ranging from forgery to reality TV.

I december 1972 blir den 38-åriga änkan Jean McConville kidnappad i sitt hem i Belfast av ett maskerat gäng, med hennes barn som vittnen. De tio barnen återser henne aldrig och det ouppklarade mordet på Jean McConville blir snart ett av de mest omtalade brotten på Nordirland, ett för alltid öppet sår i den konflikt som brukar kallas "The Troubles".Patrick Radden Keefes "Säg inget" är en andlöst spännande genomgång av konfliktens olika aktörer och turer, och samtidigt en detektivgåta som leder rakt in i hjärtat på IRA. Boken har hyllats som både banbrytande true crime och som mästerlig skildring av en konflikt vars efterverkningar än idag påverkar Europa.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the acclaimed author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue. "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it...he's a national treasure." --Rachel Maddow "Rogues is a wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people."--NPR Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says 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." Keefe brilliantly 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, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them. "A king of contemporary nonfiction." --Entertainment Weekly

Opioidiriippuvuus on aiheuttanut Yhdysvalloissa satoja tuhansia turhia kuolemia ja mittaamattoman määrän kärsimystä. Vahvojen kipulääkkeiden räjähdysmäisen leviämisen taustalla on Sacklerin lääketehtailijasuku, joka terveysviranomaisten myötävaikutuksella on onnistunut välttämään vastuunsa tragediasta. Tutustu tästä lukunäytteeseen Patrick Radden Keefe läpivalaisee hyväntekeväisyyshankkeistaan tunnetun suvun taustat ja todistaa, että opioidikriisi on aiheutettu tahallaan, jälkiä röyhkeästi peitellen ja ihmisten hätää törkeästi hyödyntäen. Sacklerin suvun saaga on samalla hätkähdyttävä kuvaus yhteiskunnasta, jossa tavallisen kansalaisen henki on halpa ja rikkaat ovat immuuneja rikosoikeudelle.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.’ – TimeIn this thrilling story of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping’s complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them.Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a true crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.‘A powerful piece of reportage about the violent underworld of New York’s Chinatown’ - The Times

"Lysande om hur girighet, grupptänkande och människors önskan att bli smärtfria skapade en hälsokatastrof av bibliska proportioner." - Anders Hansen"Patrick Radden Keefe slog igenom med "Sa¨g inget", om konflikten pa° Nordirland. Nu a¨r han tillbaka med en knivskarp skildring av de yttersta konsekvenserna av ha¨nsynslo¨s kapitalism och korruption." Malin Persson GiolitoLänge prydde namnet Sackler väggarna på världens mest prestigefyllda universitet och museum. Tack vare sina stora donationer förknippades den stenrika dynastin med ärevördiga institutioner som Harvard, Oxford och Louvren.Vad som skapat förmögenheten var inte lika känt. Men när det stod klart att familjens företag Purdue Pharma låg bakom det smärtstillande läkemedlet Oxycontin hamnade namnet Sackler i mediernas fokus. Sedan 1999 har mer än en halv miljon människor dött i den så kallade opioidkrisen – vilket ansvar bar de som hade producerat och berikat sig på det preparat som drivit på epidemin?I den hyllade Smärtans imperium berättar Patrick Radden Keefe historien om Sacklerdynastin och dess väg till framgång via en rad våghalsiga satsningar inom läkemedelsindustrin. Med skamlös marknadsföring och cyniska säljmetoder spreds Oxycontin över hela USA, och släkten Sackler blev en av världens mest förmögna. Men priset – lidande, beroende och död – betalades av de utsatta människor som litade på deras produkter.Patrick Radden Keefe, som slog igenom med Nordirlandboken Säg inget, har med Smärtans imperium skapat ett journalistiskt storverk. Det är en omskakande berättelse om sjuka affärer och en familjs omättliga girighet.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail...a masterful work of narrative reportage." - Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama--baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions--Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague--until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family's early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world's great fortunes.

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing (soon to be streaming on Disney+) and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.