Bücher von Patrick Radden Keefe

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations in the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis-an international epidemic of drug addiction which has killed nearly half a million people.In this masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping and ferociously compelling reality. Empire of Pain is the story of a dynasty: a parable of 21st century greed.

"El apellido Sackler adorna los muros de las instituciones mâas distinguidas: Harvard, el Metropolitan, Oxford, el Louvre... Es una de las familias mâas ricas del mundo, benefactora de las artes y las ciencias. El origen de su patrimonio siempre fue dudoso, hasta que saliâo a la luz que lo habâian multiplicado gracias a OxyContin, un potente analgâesico que catalizâo la crisis de los opioides en Estados Unidos. El imperio del dolor empieza en la Gran Depresiâon, con la historia de tres hermanos dedicados a la medicina: Raymond, Mortimer y el infatigable Arthur Sackler, dotado de una visiâon especial para la publicidad y el marketing. Aänos despuâes, contribuyâo a la primera fortuna familiar ideando la estrategia comercial de Valium, un revolucionario tranquilizante, para una gran farmacâeutica. Tras unas dâecadas fue Richard Sackler, el hijo de Raymond, quien pasâo a dirigir los negocios del clan, incluida Purdue Pharma, su propia empresa fabricante de medicamentos. Basâandose en las tâacticas agresivas de su tâio Arthur para vender el Valium, lanzâo un fâarmaco que habâia de ser definitivo: OxyContin. Con âel ganaron miles de millones de dâolares, pero terminarâia por arruinar su reputaciâon. Desde 2017, Patrick Radden Keefe ha investigado los secretos de la dinastâia Sackler: las complicadas relaciones familiares, los flujos de dinero, sus dudosas prâacticas corporativas... El resultado es una bomba periodâistica que relata el auge y declive de una de las grandes familias americanas y su oscuro emporio de la salud"--

"Ein Buch, das wütend und fassungslos macht und dabei so meisterhaft erzählt ist, dass man es nicht aus der Hand legen mag." ARD tttDas große, verstörende Porträt der Sackler-Familie, die sich als Philantropen feiern lassen, deren Vermögen durch Valium entstand und die mit der Erfindung des Medikaments OxyContin die Opioidkrise in den USA auslöste. Und Millionen Menschen weltweit in die Abhängigkeit stürzte.Der preisgekrönte Autor Patrick Radden Keefe zeichnet das Sittengemälde einer Industriellenfamilie, die die Welt prägt. Die Geschichte der Sackler-Dynastie birst vor Dramen - barocke Privatleben, erbitterte Verteilungsschlachten, machiavellistische Manöver in Gerichtssälen und der kalkulierte Einsatz von Geld, um sich als Kunstmäzene Zugang zur Elite zu kaufen und die weniger Mächtigen zu brechen. Ein narratives Meisterwerk, umfassend recherchiert und erschreckend zwingend argumentiert.

Patrick Radden Keefe's work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US to the Orwell Prize in the UK for his meticulously reported, hypnotically engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface: 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.'Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black-market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death-penalty attorney who represents the 'worst of the worst', among other bravura works of literary journalism.The appearance of his byline in the New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.