03538cam a2200373 i 4500 592799000 TxAuBib 20220727120000.0 220201s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021047117 9780385548519 hardcover 0385548516 hardcover (OCoLC)1273670898 TxAuBib rda Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-, author. Rogues : true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks / Patrick Radden Keefe. Grifters, killers, rebels and crooks. First edition. New York [New York] : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022] xv, 348 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The pieces in this work originally appeared in a slightly different form in The New Yorker"--Copyright page. The Jefferson bottles: how could one collector find so much rare fine wine? -- Crime family: how a notorious Dutch gangster was exposed by his own sister -- The avenger: has the brother of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing finally solved the case? -- The empire of edge: how a doctor, a trader, and the billionaire Steven A. Cohen got entangled in a vast financial scandal -- A loaded gun: a mass shooter's tragic past -- The hunt for El Chapo: inside the capture of the world's most notorious drug lord -- Winning: how Mark Burnett resurrected Donald Trump as an icon of American success -- Swiss bank heist: the computer technician who exposed a Geneva bank's darkest secrets -- The Prince of Marbella: the decades-long battle to catch an elusive international arms broker -- The worst of the worst: Judy Clarke excelled at saving the lives of notorious killers; then she took the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- Buried secrets: how an Israeli billionaire wrested control of one of Africa's biggest prizes -- Journeyman: Anthony Bourdain's movable feast. "[T]welve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time ... Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. [This work] brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker ... 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20220727. Swindlers and swindling. Crime. Investigative reporting United States. Reportage literature, American. True crime stories. QS7