![]() ![]() ![]() My taxi driver turns to me and says, ‘He’s going to order a large coffee, one sugar, and two cinnamon doughnuts.’ And the guy hums and haws and then says, ‘A large coffee, one sugar. And at some point, one of the drivers said, ‘I’m going to stop at the doughnut place, do you want anything?’. What does Keefe think connects his books? “Years ago, I had to get a very early taxi you could hear the dispatcher having conversations. ![]() ![]() Outside the window we can see festival attendees wandering to and fro between marquees and we are sporadically interrupted by lost writers and documentary crews as we talk. It’s a stately room with a grand piano and ornate furniture. I interview Keefe while he’s participating in the Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas in the living room of Borris House. His other books include Say Nothing, which explores the moral haze of the Troubles, and Empire of Pain about how the Sacklers, a family of billionaire art philanthropists, fomented the American opioid crisis with their company Purdue Pharma. There are also profiles of banking whistleblowers, reality TV moguls and wine fraudsters. His new book, Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, collects some of his New Yorker journalism and includes stories about cartel bosses such as El Chapo, arms dealers such as Monzer al-Kassar and mass shooters such as Amy Bishop. Patrick Radden Keefe is an author who writes in deeply researched detail about a wide variety of dark subjects. ![]()
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