New York : Random House Large Print, [2022].

Large Print

First large print edition.

xx, 566 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

English

9780593607800, 0593607805, 9780593607800, 0593607805

"The pieces in this work originally appeared in a slightly different form in The New Yorker"--Copyright page.

Twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery from one of the most decorated journalists of our time. "Every time he writes a book, I read it." - Rachel Maddow. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. This work brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. 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.--,Provided by publisher.

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