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

US: Vintage, 2023. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â?¢ 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, b ut 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 hi s meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articl es 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 p ermeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial." Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wine s, 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 Yor.