"A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you'll be turning pages for hours. "Rogues" is a collection of Keefe's New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. It's highly entertaining, of course, but what shines through most brightly is Keefe's fascination with what makes us human even when we're at our most imperfect." -- Los Angeles Times

Rogues is a wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people. -- NPR

Extraordinary -- Wall Street Journal

One of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation -- Toronto Star

A king of contemporary nonfiction -- Entertainment Weekly

Iconic...Keefe delivers masterpieces -- Oprah Daily

[Keefe] makes full use of journalistic tools for fact-finding: keen observation, meticulous research and insightful interviews ... As a result, each essay is a taut, highly honed yet powerful reflection on the creative and corrosive effects of obsession. -- Bookpage (starred)

From the prize-winning, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing--and one of the most decorated journalists of our time--twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue. -- Bookshop

Biographical Note:

PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain, winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize, and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, was selected as one of the ten best books of 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and The Wall Street Journal, and was named one of the "10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade" by Entertainment Weekly. His previous books are The Snakehead and Chatter. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. He is also the creator and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change.

"[T]welve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time ... 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. [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"