Patrick Radden Keefe 3 Books Collection Set (Rogues, The Snakehead, Empire of Pain)

Explore power, crime, corruption, and truth with the Patrick Radden Keefe 3 Books Collection Set, featuring Rogues, The Snakehead, and Empire of Pain.

Written by acclaimed investigative journalist and New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, this essential nonfiction collection uncovers some of the most compelling and disturbing real-life stories of our time. From global crime networks and political corruption to the devastating opioid crisis, these books combine deep investigative reporting with gripping narrative storytelling.

Perfect for readers of true crime, investigative journalism, history, and social justice, this collection offers a powerful examination of how influence, greed, and secrecy shape the modern world.

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

Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has been recognized by prizes including the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford for his meticulously reported and 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'.

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 liar; 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 works of literary journalism.

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

In 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.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions like Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin. A blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis – an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.

In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and author of Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe, exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty, and twenty-first-century greed.