EAN: 9781529063103

EMPIRE OF PAIN - PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE KARTONIER...

The shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of
Valium  OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series Painkiller 
starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick.  Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Sunday Times Bestseller A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'   Shortlisted for the Financial
Times  McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award   One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the
Year   Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction  'There are
so many "they did what?" moments in this book  when your jaw practically hits the page' -
Sunday Times    'A page-turner with a villainous family to rival the Roys in Succession' -
Esquire   The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions like Harvard and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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  award-winning journalist and author of Say
Nothing   Patrick Radden Keefe  exhaustively documents the jaw-dropping reality. Empire of Pain
is the story of a dynasty  and twenty-first-century greed.   'This book will make your blood
boil' - John Carreyrou  author of Bad Blood    'I gobbled up Empire of Pain . . . a masterclass
in compelling narrative nonfiction.' - Elizabeth Day  The Guardian    'You feel almost guilty
for enjoying it so much' - The Times

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