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Empire of Pain

Empire of Pain

Biography & MemoirBusiness & Economics
Pages
560
Published
2021
Language
English

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.

Prose complexity
10/10

Vibe

DarkInformativeReflectiveThought-ProvokingEmotionalGritty
Morally GreyBetrayal

Genres

Biography & Memoir Business & Economics History Politics & Society True Crime Biography Business

Authors

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Patrick Radden Keefe

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...

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Ricard Gil

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.