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EMPIRE OF PAIN - PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE KARTONIER...

**Patrick Radden Keefe's new book  London Falling  is available to pre-order now**  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' One of The Telegraph 's 20 Best
Nonfiction Books of All Time   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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