Recommended to those that enjoy well crafted journalism.

Even if you do as I did, and skip those that don’t spark your interest, this is a well written, worthwhile collection. And there’s one about Jeffrey Epstein, too.Īll told, this book is a meal. There is one about the Lockerbie bombing, and another about insider trading, that I tried to care about but couldn’t, so I skipped those. Chilling, indeed! Other favorites are about El Chapo, and about Mark Burnett, the promoter that turned Trump into The Apprentice, splicing and editing sufficiently to make the man sound coherent and businesslike. She owns five armored cars, because she knows her brother will never rest until one of them is dead. The next, “Crime Family,” is a riveting expose of a notorious, yet strangely beloved Scandinavian kidnapper whose sister turns him in when she senses that he’s spiraling out of control. This one makes me cranky enough, and is lengthy enough, that I abandon it halfway in. A private plane, burning enough fuel to melt the polar caps, or to transport a good many people to work for an entire year, is dispatched to fetch some wine. The first, about an obscenely wealthy wine snob who finds himself with some counterfeit wine, makes my blood boil. Most, however, are unquestionably about scoundrels. Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe is a brilliant writer, and each of these pieces reminds you that this world and the people in it are more interesting. 'Beautifully constructed.Each chapter of this book is on a different topic ostensibly, each is about a different rogue, or group of rogues, or-in one case-a whole family of rogues! However, there are a couple of chapters where that isn’t really true, and that is my strongest quibble with anything presented there. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks Hardcover Jby Patrick Radden Keefe (Author) 1,011 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 16.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 26.89 1 Used from 19.99 4 New from 26.

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