Rogues

Resumen del libro

Patrick Radden Keefe's work has been recognized 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. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker.

As 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.'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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Patrick Radden Keefex{0026}lt;/B es periodista en plantilla de x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I y autor de varios libros de no ficción: x{0026}lt;I Chatter x{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I The Snakeheadx{0026}lt;/I (2009), x{0026}lt;I No digas nadax{0026}lt;/I (2019, merecedor del National Book Critics Circle Award y el Orwell Prize) y x{0026}lt;I El imperio del dolorx{0026}lt;/I (2021), ganadora del Baillie Gifford Award, el más prestigioso premio de no ficción del Reino Unido. Ha publicado artículos en x{0026}lt;I The New York Times Magazinex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Slatex{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . En 2014 recibió el National Magazine Award en la categoría de crónica por A Loaded Gun y fue finalista del mismo premio en la categoría de reportaje en los años 2015 y 2016. Asimismo, es creador y narrador del podcast en ocho capítulos x{0026}lt;I Wind of Changex{0026}lt;/I (2020).x{0026}lt;/P