Books by Patrick Radden Keefe and Complete Book Reviews
Patrick Radden Keefe, Author . Doubleday $26 (414p) ISBN 978-0-385-52130-7
Keefe (Chatter
) examines America's complicated relationship with immigration in this brilliant account of Cheng Chui Ping, known as Sister Ping, who built a multimillion-dollar empire as a “snakehead,” smuggling Chinese immigrants...
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Patrick Radden Keefe, Author Random House $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6034-4
The secret global information network that has come together under the umbrella name ""Echelon"" is detailed here by Yale Law student Keefe. While Great Britain led the way in the mid-'70s, Keefe marks the U.S., Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore and many...
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Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, $28.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-3855213-1-4
New Yorker staff writer Keefe (Snakehead) incorporates a real-life whodunit into a moving, accessible account of the violence that has afflicted Northern Ireland. The mystery concerns Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10, who was snatched from...
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Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, $32.50 (560p) ISBN 978-0-385-54568-6
History repeats itself and disaster ensues in this sweeping saga of the rise and fall of the family behind OxyContin, the painkiller widely credited with sparking the opioid epidemic in America. New Yorker staff writer Keefe (Say Nothing) brings...
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Patrick Radden Keefe. Doubleday, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-54851-9
The 12 essays in this superlative collection from New Yorker staff writer Keefe (Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty) reflect, as he says in his preface, his abiding preoccupations: “crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the...
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