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Empire of Pain

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2021720 pagesPicador

Synopsis

This book chronicles the rise and devastating impact of the Sackler family and their role in the opioid crisis. It's a deep dive into how a family built an empire on the back of a highly addictive drug, leading to widespread devastation. A stark look at greed and its consequences.

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Authors

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written articles about the chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain, the...

Ricard Gil is the author of Empire of Pain, a gripping look at the opioid crisis. He writes about important social issues with clear, direct prose.

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Sackler familyAntagonist

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